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Most ponds have several snappers, and many DNA studies have shown that a single snapper clutch can have as many as five different fathers.

1920’s normal.
“A new danger, moreover, now threatens the birds at sea. An irreducible residue of crude oil, called by refiners “slop,” remains in stills after oil distillation, and this is pumped into southbound tankers and emptied far offshore. This wretched pollution floats over large areas, and the birds alight in it and get it on their feathers. They inevitably die. “

He knew theThe time they had died because their watches had stopped when they drowned. This is definitely something tfrom our father’s time, not our children’s.

All small lakes have in common a predictable progression called succession, the inevitable change in plant population over a period of time. The succession of the lake is toward its demise; the smaller the lake, the quicker its prospective disappearance.
If succession is interrupted, it will always begin again and reach the same end.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent by the chemical industry in an attempt to discredit the book and to malign the author—she was described as an ignorant and hysterical woman who wanted to turn the earth over to the insects. These attacks fortunately backfired by creating more publicity than the publisher possibly could have afforded.

Non human main characters and poetic writing. Not my part of the world but no less moving

Fascinating how this book predates an understanding of plate tectonics at that time they really believe the moon came from the Pacific Ocean and all other oceans had a layer of granite. Seas Were in the same position they have always been.

At the time of writing the earth was only 2.5 billion years old calculated from the oldest rocks.

The most popular theory for the formation of moon was that it was torn away from the earth’s surface through tidal resonance. The idea has been so clearly wiped off our history books that I’ve never heard of it before.