"Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive;……" — David Douglass
"Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits."
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David Douglass
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14 Quotes by David Douglass
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On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations...
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The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all,…
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A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.
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Have the models been successful in predicting anything? They, of course, predict substantial global warming. This is not surprising given…
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If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
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Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.
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It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.
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Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.
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It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific…
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One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
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The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the…
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However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all…
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