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In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
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The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder…
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Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying…
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Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there…
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Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in…
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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as…
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In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce…
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Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants…
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Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may…
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In an organization of any significant size, the executives cannot create the future single-handedly. They must develop the enterprise in a constellation…
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Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the…
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The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's…
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An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of…
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Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The…
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The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and…
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We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man…
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