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Category: Environmental
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We Are all Humans – wonderfully diverse – who emerged from the same continent. The differences, Asian, Indian, Eskimo, Indigenous, so called Whites, Blacks – are just labels – tags – meaningless. All Human life on the planet emerged from the continent now called Africa. People dispersed to all parts…
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The Earth is breathing a sigh of relief today, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, because her brainy humans have shut down the engines of pollution. No, it can't go on like this – or can it? (There was a reason that manufacturing left the USA, besides cheap labor – lax…
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It's been over a month since I've been to the beach. Emotions seem to be wrapped up in worry and uncertainty, and I don't miss it in the usual way. But I do miss it! ©Laine Quinn 2019 St. Augustine Beach, sunrise.
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"The shore means many things to many people. Of its varied moods the one usually considered typical is not so at all. The true spirit does not reside in the gentle surf that laps a sun drenched bathing beach on a summer day. Instead, it is on a lonely shore at dawn or…
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Where beauty is – there rests the soul. Azaleas in full force in St. Augustine.
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The hungry, greedy, insatiable snake, eating its own tail has gotten to the head. What will he do next? Laine Quinn
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Ecola I walked by the sea-creek side. The wind laughed, the gulls cried. Sweet water lapped on the salt sand between the deep sea and the deep land. Ursula K. LeGuin Years ago, Joseph Campbell told us that the poets would save us. I begin to understand. …
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It might seem incredulous that there were peaceful, cooperative, undefended cities in so called prehistory. But go back as recently as 1492, when Columbus sailed across the Atlantic in search of a route to China and India. Luckily for him and his crew, there was land in between, and after nearly 3 months of…
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When you have peaceful, cooperative cities that are unfortified: no walls or fortresses – that have not developed weapons of death: there was no need for those things, as their neighbors were friendly – and violent warring tribes from the surrounding arid lands invade and destroy everything in their path, installing their vengeful, jealous…
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