Scout: “Why couldn’t I mash him? Jem: “Because they don’t bother you, Jem answered in the darkness. He had turned out his reading light.–Scout and Jem discussing their roly-poly encounter, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee. This pill-bug is a common invertebrate found, well, almost anywhere in North America these days but is a native species […]
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In a store I saw a one-cup teapotshaped like a fish I once metunder the waves at Puako Beach.Short as a thumb, he had a name longerthan the curving shore. –from the poem, A Pot of Humuhumunukunukuapua’a, Rachel Dacus I don’t pretend to know how to pronounce that – but the crib notes suggest “who-moo-who-moo-noo-koo-ah-pooah-ah”. It’s
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In Sweden they form it into bats or baffles, which lie at their doors to clean shoes upon. It restores ropy wine in a few days. Encyclopedia Londinensis, Or, Universal dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, and Literature. Anonymous. 1810. Running club moss is a Lycopodium, a genus of plants that are flowerless, vascular, terrestrial (some grow
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness – Friedrich Nietzsche This is a relatively common lizard of the Puget Sound region and can be found in northern Idaho, western Montana, and along the Pacific coast of southern
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Se debe subir tan rapido como un viscacha (You must climb as fast as a viscacha) –Pedro’s urging at 15,000 ft in the Quimsa Cruz range. Viscachas are large South American rodents that have short forelimbs, , long hind limbs, and a long, bushy tail. Their long hair is soft and dense and they have fleshy
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