Powerful are the things we use.
  —The Menomini Tribe, on the usefulness of their surroundings.
  The thin layer of soil that forms a patchy covering over the continents controls our own existence and that of every other animal of the land.
  —Rachel Carson
  Indeed it is so sensitive (water) that not only does it react to changes in its immediate surroundings, but also to the delicate, imponderable influences of the planetary universe. This may seem an exceedingly bold statement, but experiments in the field show that water is indeed capable of reacting to the delicate influences resulting from changes in the cosmos.
  —Theodor Schwenk
 
 
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