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An Immense World
One of the greatest books I have ever read. I recommended it here a couple of years ago.
You might consider
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/196774338-the-light-eaters as a companion work on plants.
Currently I just finished re-reading "Darwin's Radio" by Greg Bear (and the sequel "Darwin's Children") and they are just as good as they were 20 years ago.
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“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power."
He paused for a moment, then thundered, “Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power!”
“In vain,” Roosevelt said, “they seek to hide behind the Flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the Flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.”
- Franklin Roosevelt 1933
