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Terrapsychology is a word coined by Craig Chalquist to describe deep, systematic, trans-empirical approaches to encountering the presence, soul, or "voice" of places and things: what the ancients knew as their resident genius loci or indwelling spirit. This perspective emerged from sustained ...
Aquatic organisms (fish, for example) that can swim against the current, whereas plankton drift with it.
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A statistical model or computer simulation used to analyze something in a community or its environment.
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The blustery front edge of a thunderstorm. It separates warm surface air currents from cold downdrafts.
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An epiphyte (a plant that grows on another plant) that eventually extends its own roots into the ground.
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A line of mountain valley lakes carved by glacial erosion. From the air they resemble beads on a cord.
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Grass-like plant that is adapted to grow in moist habitats. John Keats saw some withered from the lake.
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Taken together, the troposphere, oceans, and land surfaces where things live. Also called the Ecosphere.
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The hypothesis that industrializing nations exhibit death rate declines followed by birth rate declines.
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A symmetrical herb garden design that allows access without requiring any trampling on the garden beds.
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The growth and decline of a population. Also a geology term for land leveling by deposition and erosion.
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