Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and … - John Lubbock

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Probably more than anything else, the place that we really see the effects of the power of even the relatively mild temperature increases so far is in the melting of everything frozen on the planet.

John Lubbock

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

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