Titlebook: Gaia’s Body; Toward a Physiology Tyler Volk Book 1998 Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1998 biosphere.climate.desert.environment.evolution.f

使增至最大

Breathing of the Biosphere,nhaled landward from over the bathtub-warm Gulf. For a week or two the heralds arrive in waves: white clouds, often accompanied by lightning and thunder and some promise of gray, but precious few drops of rain. All the hills and canyons are thirsty and waiting. The monsoon is coming.

Organonitrile

任意

978-1-4612-7452-0Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1998

largesse

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2190-6biosphere; climate; desert; environment; evolution; forest; microbes; nitrogen

EXTOL

M. Oldendorf,E. Zeitler,K. Maatsch,P. WeberIt has snowed for the past two days. Flurries drifted down from white skies, endlessly. Finally today the blue broke through. The sun heated the rocks that poked up through the snow like little furnaces, melting the white away in rings, exposing soil to absorb still more sun. The tiniest arroyos have begun to run with riffling, gurgling rivulets.

漫不經(jīng)心

Intercept

Intuitive

grandiose

Outer Light, Inner Fire,isible only on maps. A ceremony would be in order for all those making the crossing for the first time, including me. Certificates would be handed out several days later, when a lull in the busy schedule allowed all on board to gather as a group. But before celebration comes initiation.

灰心喪氣

Gaia in Time,now poke from their protective buds. The willows are ending their month-long flowering. A week ago the turkey vultures soared in from Mexico to mock my heaviness with their aerial acrobatics. Last night, as comet Hale-Bopp blazed in the west, the first guttural trilling of the canyon tree frogs began.