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1 " If we are sowing lots of thoughts about shoes, cars, clothes, computer games, shopping, guns, and very few thoughts about things of the Lord, we will not reap spiritual maturity, spiritual priorities, greater desire for the Lord, or a closer relationship with the Lord. We will reap vanity, shallowness, and even greater spiritual disinterest and distance from the Lord. If we struggle with being uninterested in the things of the Lord, we need to consider that this is something we have actually done to ourselves. If we sow a desire to charm, amuse, or impress our friends, we will not reap relationships based on a selfless, sacrificial, Christ-like interest in our friend's spiritual welfare. We will reap self-serving, exploitive relationships that can actually drag our friends down. This is a life and death matter: what you are sowing in every little conversation that you have. Are you building up, edifying your friends? "
― Daniel B. Botkin
2 " Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth. Species adjust or go extinct, and both have happened. For life-forms with our kinds of cells—eukaryotic, the kind with distinct organelles—the average existence of a species is about 1 million years, and, on average, one species goes extinct a year, at least of the species we have named and know, including those we know only from fossil records."-Dan Botkin, excerpt from THE MOON IN THE NAUTILUS SHELL. "
― Daniel B. Botkin , Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered: From Climate Change to Species Extinction, How Life Persists in an Ever-Changing World
3 " Judge a man not by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes." -John Gregory "
4 " With this scientific information in hand, the courts decided that Los Angeles would have to stop the removal of water that flowed into Mono Lake. By 2008 the lake still had not recovered to the level required by the courts, indicating that diversion of water had been undesirable for the lake and its ecosystem. "
― Daniel B. Botkin , Environmental Sciences: Earth as a Living Planet
5 " Phosphorus is added to streams and enters the lake. Algae growth is stimulated, and a dense layer forms. (c) The algae layer becomes so dense that the algae at the bottom die. Bacteria feed on the dead algae and use up the oxygen. Finally, fish die from lack "
6 " throughout the nation. These are medium-size watersheds, not the entire flow from the nation’s major rivers. One such watershed is that of the Platte River, a major tributary of the Missouri River.The most common herbicides used for growing "
