Ecosystem
Achieving environmental results through focused science
Possibly the smallest oldest surviving ecosystem in the world, this 'garden in a bottle', planted by David Latimer in 1960, was last watered in 1972, before it was tightly sealed. David Latimer, 80, from Cranleigh in Surrey wanted to experiment how long the ecosystem will survive and to everybody's amazement, the little world is still thriving entirely on recycled air, nutrients and water. The only external thing fed to this bottled-garden was light, without which there would be no energy for plants inside to create their own food and continue to grow. Other than that, this is an entirely self-sufficient ecosystem, with the plant and bacteria in the soil working together.
A community of living organisms with the nonliving components of their environment
QuotaBillsAstrology is a disease, not a science. - Maimonides
Water is the only drink for a wise man. - Henry David Thoreau
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. - Alan Watts
Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. - English Proverb
Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water. - Latin Proverb
Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. - India Proverb
A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost. - Alfred North Whitehead
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears or the sea. - Isak Dinesen
Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas. - James Roy Newman
Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. - Malayan Proverb
If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day. - Molly Ivins
A lucky person is someone who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes. - Greek Proverb
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. - Oscar Wilde
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. - Adam Smith
When in doubt as to the applicability of a disinfectant, use soap and water. - Martin H. Fischer
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. - Jules Henri Poincare
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Ben Franklin
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. - Aldous Huxley
When ya go out there in the water and ya start crossing your longirudes and lassitudes. - Archie Bunker
Mathematics is the cheapest science. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and a paper. - George Polya
There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants. - A. Whitney Brown
If NASA really wants to find water on Mars, they should just send me there to hit a golf ball. - Gene Jaster
Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow. - Paul L Dunbar
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden
Like the old adverb, "you can lead a gift horse to the water but ya can't look in his mouth." - Archie Bunker
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. - Konrad Lorenz
Following his doctor's orders, Nikita (Khrushchev) has cut his drinking in half. He's leaving out the water. - Bob Hope
After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom. - Arthur Golden
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. - Helen Keller
Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. - Unknown
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm. - William Cowper
I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think, "Well, that's not going to happen." - Unknown
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. - Jules H Poincare
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science. - Mary Somerville
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." - Lyndon B. Johnson
Advice from a tree:
- Stand tall and proud
- Go out on a limb
- Remember your roots
- Drink plenty of water
- Enjoy the view - Unknown