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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.
Ecosystem thanks to Wayne Nowazek

A community of living organisms with the nonliving components of their environment

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Astrology 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


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