Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
photo 291/365: “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity…” (John Muir)
© Ashley Herrin. New Hampshire, Fall 2011
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"Without a doubt, we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical. We both use nucleic acids for heredity; we both use proteins and enzymes to control the chemistry of our cells. Most significantly, we both use precisely the same codebook for translating nucleic acid information into protein information, as do virtually all the other creatures on the planet."
Carl Sagan
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