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Erica said:
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Trying to get back into the habit of reading and paying attention via short story. I WILL finish this book and not add it to the fifteen book stack of 2024 partially read books.
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“Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!”
― Collected Verse from 1929 On
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!”
― Collected Verse from 1929 On
“The best place to find a new mine is next door to an old mine.”
― Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
― Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
“To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns the valley or the mountain: but to a naturalist who is reading in the face of the rocks the annals of a former world, the mossy covering which obstructs his view, and renders indistinguishable the different species of stone, is no less than a serious subject of regret.”
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“Nevada...a land that is geology by day and astronomy at night”
― Desert Challenge: An Interpretation of Nevada
― Desert Challenge: An Interpretation of Nevada
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