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Old-time ranchers planted cheatgrass because it would green up fast in the spring and provide early forage for grazing cattle,” Oyster says, nodding his head at the world outside. This first patch of cheatgrass was in southern British Columbia, Canada, in 1889. But fire spreads it. Every year, it dries to gunpowder, and now land that used to burn every ten years, it burns every year. And the cheatgrass recovers fast. Cheatgrass loves fire. But the native plants, the sagebrush and desert phlox, they don’t. And every year it burns, there’s more cheatgrass and less anything else. And the deer and antelope that depended on those other plants are gone now. So are the rabbits. So are the hawks and owls that ate the rabbits. The mice starve, so the snakes that ate the mice starve. Today, cheatgrass dominates the inland deserts from Canada to Nevada, covering an area over twice the size of the state of Nebraska and spreading by thousands of acres per year. The big irony is, even cattle hate cheatgrass, Oyster says. So the cows, they eat the rare native bunch grasses. What’s left of them... “When you think about it from a native plant perspective,” Oyster says, “Johnny Appleseed was a fucking biological terrorist.” Johnny Appleseed, he says, might as well be handing out smallpox.


Chuck Palahniuk


#cheatgrass #environment #johnny-appleseed #oyster #love

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.


Christian Lous Lange


#civilization #community #development #economic #facts

The fact that biological, or "natural" rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.


Steven Levy


#biological #computer #creation #emotions #even

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.


Trofim Lysenko


#biological #grounding #include #knowledge #laws

If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.


Hans Blix


#anthrax #biological #biological weapons #cause #dry

The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.


Hans Blix


#away #biological #ceasefire #chemical #conditions

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.


Hans Blix


#biological #biological weapons #chemical #expecting #gas

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.


Jared Diamond


#attributable #between #biological #broadest #continental

This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.


Albert Szent-Gyorgyi


#basic principles #biological #hydrogen #principles #seems

My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.


Tonya Harding


#biological #bought #clothes #goodwill #made






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