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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
-- Albert Einstein

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
-- Theodosius Dobzhansky (1973 Paper)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #TheodosiusDobzhansky #Biology #Evolution

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

The new wave is not value-added, it's garbage-subtracted.
-- Esther Dyson

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EstherDyson #TheFuture #Value

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

[Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
-- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AnnaQuindlen #Education #StandardizedTesting

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

[Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
-- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AnnaQuindlen #Education #StandardizedTesting

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

[Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
-- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AnnaQuindlen #Education #StandardizedTesting

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

[Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
-- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AnnaQuindlen #Education #StandardizedTesting

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

[Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
-- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AnnaQuindlen #Education #StandardizedTesting

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

Tying health insurance to employment is class warfare.
-- Public Citizen (@public_citizen)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PublicCitizen #Employment #HealthInsurance

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

If a system becomes weak enough and the opposition divided enough, if the ruling order is corrupt enough and people are angry enough, extremists can suddenly step into the center, where no one expects them. And after that it can take decades to undo the damage.
-- Kontra (@counternotions)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Kontra #Authoritarianism #Corruption #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
-- Nicholas Chamfort

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NicholasChamfort #History

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
-- George Bernard Shaw

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
-- Pierre Bayle

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I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ArthurRubinstein #Life #Love

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

If the voter cannot grasp the details of the problems of the day because he has not the time, the interest or the knowledge, he will not have a better public opinion because he is asked to express his opinion more often.
-- Walter Lippmann

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WalterLippmann #Democracy

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

What you do thunders so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

Perhaps nothing government does, or will not stop doing, should be surprising in a country in which a Kansas bank was fined because it did not have Braille instructions on the ATM machines in its drive-through banking lanes.
-- George F. Will

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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed -- everything else is public relations.
-- George Orwell

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It is one of the ironies of our time that, while concentrating on the defense of our country against enemies from without, we should be so heedless of those who would destroy it from within.
-- Rachel Carson (1953)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RachelCarson #Conservation #Nature

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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
-- Galileo Galilei

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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
-- Henry Ford

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

Colorado River Basin Has Lost As Much Water As A Full Lake Mead Since 2003, Study Says
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https://www.kjzz.org/science/2025-05-30/colorado-river-basin-has-lost-as-much-water-as-a-full-lake-mead-since-2003-study-says <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115593 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #CRB #ColoradoRiver #ColoradoRiverbasin #Reservoir #lakeMead #lakePOwell #watersupply #waterstorage #drought #climatechange #groundwater #mining #depletion #remotesensing #NASA #GRACE #GRACEFO #satellite #water #hydrology #population #usecase #farming #irrigation #agriculture #watersecurity #foodsecurity #usage #model #modeling #landsurface #sustainability #sustainable #extraction #aridification

After reading #DesertSolitaire by #EdwardAbbey & then #MonkeyWrenchGang in '76, we rafted through #Canyonlands in southeastern #Utah. After 8 days of lazily floating under the massive sandstone canyons, we arrived at the confluence of #GreenRiver & #ColoradoRiver & witnessed the immense rapids actively carving the heart of #CataractCanyon. Mind blown & then after the final set of rapids we arrived at a drowned #GlenCanyon 💔 making me a life-long lover of free rivers. 😢 #LakePowell can suck it.