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131 lines
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2.6
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CYCLES: A NICHE IN TIME
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Cyrles are any reeurrrng evenis or phenomena, They
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have anorher lmplkatmn, whieh rs one ol drversron. A
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eysle lyou like, an rnrerruprron or eddy rn rhe
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snalthin: ngussiml iowards eneropy. ll rs ihe
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speelal provenanee nl lik ro ryele nrarerralr 5o
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emeienily dues rhrs happen rhal m o lroprral loresi
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alrnosr .ll oraoerial humerus are in ryeie in ie lorrns ll
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rs rhrs very cornpler eyelrng rn rhe rrop n whreh
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opened up so rnany opporruniries lor yreld rhnr
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thousand) oi speeies have evolved la rahe advanrage ol
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ihese.
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ll NICHI‘S are oppornrrurrer rn spaee, CYCLES are
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opporrurunes m Time la rrrneslon and oorh rogerher
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give hnrhour lo rnany evenrs and speries Geese eal
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grass, drresr u, rnouli. produee wasre pmduds, add
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parasnes. digesrrve enzymes, acids and alkalrs, and
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deleeaie The yuund reeerves rhe rejerro, rhe sun
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shores, and rarn nray (an. Tuner, laaeierra, graas roois
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and iohage walk on huh": and laeees, and
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moolrse lhern rnro hie ll we Rex-gaunt and en
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eour—aee surh ryCIL-s, our opponunrrres w oorarr. yrelds
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rnulnply. Every peasanl lanner who keeps prgeons lns
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rhey mu do rn rhe Medrrerranean buvdrlsl knows lhrs
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Irulh, Here, every lhmkmg larrner ourlds hrs own
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phospluke larrory, as: p eon loh.
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Earn sueh eyele rs a irrrrove errerrr; drer, eoorcr,
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seleeoon, season, weaiher, drgesuon, deeonrposulon,
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arud regeneration diner earh orneu happens Thus, ir rs
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ihe number of such rydes, great and small, rhar decide
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rne porenhal lor dlvexsl'y, We should reel ourselves
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pnvlkged lo be pan ol sueh erernal renewal Jus| oy
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living we have nehreved nnrrnorialrr —ras grass,
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grasshoppers. gulls, geese. and oiher people. We are o /
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the diversrry we erpenenee rn every real sense.
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II, as physical seiendsrs ossure us, we all eonrarn a
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lew rnoleeules oi :rnslern, and n me arornre parrreles oi
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our phyareal body rearh lo ihe nurerrnosl oounds ol ihe
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universe. lhen we are all de [mm wmponmls oi all
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llungs. There is nowhere lerr lor us lo go ll we are
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already everywhere. and lhrs Is, in rrulh, oil we wrll
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ever have or need. ll we love ourselves ar all, we
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should respeer all “wings equally, and nor claim any
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superronry over whai are, in eueer, our erher pans ls
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she hnnd superror ro rhe eye? The bishop lo lhe goose”
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The son lo ihe rnorherz
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Every more ayenl increases in. opoonunlry lor yield
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Tu increase cycling rslo lnoioaso yield.
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Feuple are bum up rnoleeule by rnoleeule, (ydlng
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ihroueh rhernselves lhe rnarerrals n! rheir envrrorr.
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nrenr: ns arr, sorls, ioods, nunersls, and puhogens
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Over rirne, people rresie lherr own local “flimsy las do
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wambi|s and all sedeniory animals): iherr wnsiea,
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exudae, and rereeu evenrually ereale The very soils m
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whren rhey garden, caroege in. garbage oul' applies
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equally ro campulen and people. We gardeners are
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cansnmly cytlmg ourselves, and by a generaiional
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parrern or sdrusnnenr beeorne ‘emompallhle‘ wilh
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our landscape and rhnrale. We are “M rhe end pornr ol
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evolurion but a srep on lhe way, and pan or a whole
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sequenee or eyelea
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N is line number n! sueh dqlnmllve—regennalxve
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eyeles. unhnowairle lo us, whreh dererrnrne rhe nurnoer
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ol opporrunrrres rn rhe syriern. and us porenlral lo
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(hinge, rnulale, drversrly. and reinlegraie, Nor only
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can we never cross rhe sum! river rwree, we ran never
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see rhe same view twlcz, nor knuw rhe sarne sysrern
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rwioe Every eyrle rs a new oppommily ln narure, n is
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our right to die and rnnke way lor our suceessors, who
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are ourselves reexpressed m dinerenl lorrns
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h rs our mlerarree 0! (he prohiersoon oi hie whreh
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perrnils sueh eyeles. Deprived sysrenrs, |ik¢ rhore
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blasled by binaries. lore rnosr or all opporiunny lo
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rranseend iherr prior srale, and lhe egg oilile is broken,
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dzgmdzs, and asiumes a lower porenrral
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Trriaal peoples are very rnueh aware ol. and Tied lo,
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their sorl and landscapes, so rhnr rherr rnenial and
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physrral healrh depend on lhese rres oern, mums
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rorned 11w resr or us have sullered lorohle, hrsioric
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drsloearrons lmm home sires, and rrrany no longer
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hnow where horne rs. although ihere are new and
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ronserous moves ro Rmhabn rhe eanh and re idenrily
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walh a hiandml as “horne:
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Travel hsell earrses seress and mnxbxdlly. Travellers
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horh curry and aroune Pa|hngens and spread rhern lo
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orher culmm New serrlers bring new speeres, new
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lrrnernoles, and new conmpts. Loeal sysierns haye lo
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readjusi, or larl These proresres are anihguus |o rhe
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disruroanee ol old eeosyslerns by new eeoloerenl or
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ehnrahe lorees The posrernvasron evoluoon ronlarns
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pan of lhe old and pan oi me new syslenr, so xi resell a
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new aesernoly wrrh new porenoals. Too alien, however
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we have dealroyed very produenve loeal eeologies,
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only lo replare ihern wrrh energyeeonsurnrns
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"imwuvemenls' oi our own making We have orsunred
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the role oi lhe ereaior, and dshvyzd live rrearrorn lo do
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Cycling of nun-renrs \s rononuous rn ihe iropres, lrui
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ls inlerrupied wherever droughr, mild, or low nurrrenr
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smus reducer rhe "base uppoflumly", iusr as rhe killing
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oi hsh sroels reduees ihe yreld Sueh eyeles are slowed
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or even slapped by ehororre [actors or lay our
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rnrederenee,
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cycles in name are lefiVsmn mules any lrorn
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enimpic sods—ill. mil cycles nuimnls—qnvrnp
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opoonunmus lorynld, and mus upponunlilss ior
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spec-310 occupy ivno "idles,
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Cycles, like camels, have schedules or nnres lo oeeur
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Some are lrequenr snd obvmul like day and nighr,
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orhers loneeieran lilre sunspoi eyeles Bum shorr and
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long cycles ore used in phenmnznologlul reehoning by
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aborigines, who use eyele—indienrors as none nups.
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