Most Read This Week In Environment

The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Environment"

Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman

Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)

Tooth and Claw (A Longmire Mystery, #0.5)

When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside

The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Call of the Penguins (Veronica McCreedy, #2)

A Grave in the Woods (Bruno, Chief of Police #17)

Lone Wolf: Walking the Line Between Civilization and Wildness

The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Really Very Crunchy: A Beginner's Guide to Removing Toxins from Your Life without Adding Them to Your Personality

The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing

Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed

Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe

Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

Value(s): Building a Better World for All

Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse

The Hidden Life of Trees: A Graphic Adaptation

A Horse Named Sky (Voice of the Wilderness #3)

This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind

No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain

Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance

They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals

Ornithography: An Illustrated Guide to Bird Lore & Symbolism

Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature

Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell

The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World

Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

The Canopy Keepers (The Scorched Earth, #1)

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World

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“ Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first. ”
― Shannon L. Alder

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“ You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures risi You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away -- all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us. If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice. Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. It might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not. If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It's powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. Do you think this is the first time that's happened? Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive glass, like fluorine. When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life. Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself. In the thinking of the human being a hundred years is a long time. A hundred years ago we didn't have cars, airplanes, computers or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us. ...more ”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park / Congo

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