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- The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to…
- It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the…
- ...Pathological states are the consequence of several determinate factors acting simultaneously...The manifestations of any given agent differ profoundly from one person to another. ...Each noxious…
- There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the…
- With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time…
- More can be learned from what works than from what fails.
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