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Montrose Covered Bridge was built in 1880–1881 mostly of oak and white pine by John Bear. He had previously built barns, the total cost to ...
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Ernest Thompson Seton and his appeals for peace. An anti-war speech pointing to the coming totalitarianism
This is a partial transcription from “Ernest Thompson Seton: A Scout Appeals for Peace,” broadcast on Radio Praha by the journalist David Vaughan in 2015. ... -
The Bruce trail reference. 42 maps. Queenston to Tobermory
The Bruce Trail Reference Maps & Trail Guide is the definitive resource for exploring the Bruce Trail and your key to a safe and enjoyable ... -
Point Farm. Mystical sunsets at the mysterious Lake Huron
Point Farm Provincial Park is once the site of a popular Victorian resort, this park north of Goderich is perched on a bluff and offers ... -
Trees are living beings from whom we should learn
O wondrous trees, my old friends, Albert Schweitzer addresses the trees and ends his confession. Teach me, brothers, to live thus, to die thus. Vasily ... -
World-known Niagara Escarpment is an old rocks but a young escarpment
Niagara Escarpment is composed of very old rocks and it is a relatively young landscape feature that is still evolving. The hard dolostone rocks capping ... -
Pablo Neruda. The Chilean forest
A short memory of Pably Neruda (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973) in the Chilean forest. An enchantment that everyone knows, like millions of ... -
Maple syrup. A short history of Canada’s national speciality
Maple syrup is produced only in the northeastern part of North America. The species of maple primarily used to make maple syrup is the sugar ... -
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else … Knowledge can be communicated, but ... -
German New Medicine. Five Biological Laws. How to change life
The German New Medicine, Germanische Heilkunde® discovered by Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer and systematized in the 5Biological Laws represents a change in the understanding of ... -
Heaven and Earth. Bestseller about climate change. Ian Plimer
This a brilliantly argued 598-page book by Ian Plimer about climate change is a comprehensive work that summarizes in detail all the objections that many ... -
Seattle speech. A text about the domination of an ideology, about slavery, about freedom disappearing
There are texts so timeless that they must be preserved for future generations to avoid the mistakes of our ancestors, based on the psychopathic behavior ...
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"In case nobody has told you," she said, "this is the United States of America, where nobody has a right to rely on anybody else—where everybody learns to make his or her own way.
"I'm here to test you," she said, "but there's a basic rule for life I'd like to teach you, too, and you'll thank me for it in years to come."
This was the lesson: "Paddle your own canoe," she said. "Can you say that and remember it?"
Not only could I say it, but I remembered it to this day: "Paddle your own canoe." -
“it is illusion to think that there is anything fragile about the life of the earth; surely this is the toughest membrane imaginable in the universe, opaque to probability, impermeable to death.
We are the delicate part, transient and vulnerable as cilia. Nor is it a new thing for Man to invent an existence that he imagines to be above the rest of life; this has been his most consistent intellectual exertion down the millennia. As illusion, it has never worked out to his satisfaction in the past, any more than it does today.”Lewis ThomasLives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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There are 60 065 species of trees
in the world.
In Ontario, there is a study
of the Native Trees of Ontario Collection,
which has about 85 species.