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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 ...
A plant shoot emerging from the root or lower stem. There's one born every minute.
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The surface of water, where pollutants float and atmospheric gasses meet the sea.
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Stream load material carried along the stream bed without falling into suspension.
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Tiny, single-celled animals without a backbone. Usually classed with the protists.
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A conical mound of soil-covered ice pushed up from ground permeated by permafrost.
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Disorder or unproductive energy in a given system. It tends to increase over time.
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The genes of a species. Their chromosomal order controls physical characteristics.
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Able to absorb moisture, particularly from the air. Salt, glycerin, ethyl alcohol.
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Scooping out a channel bed to prevent accumulated silt from stopping ship traffic.
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The distribution of a species whose populations have been geographically divided.
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