barren land devoid of any trees to create a forest. The term should not be confused with reforestation‚ which is the process of specifically planting native trees into a forest that has decreasing numbers of trees. While reforestation is increasing the number of trees of an existing forest‚ afforestation is the creation of a ‘new’ forest. Our Earth has been constantly trying to cope with the way in which human beings use natural resources‚ clear forest lands‚ cut trees‚ and contaminate the air
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The Big Forest By lena (marina) garcia Sometimes‚ hot and breezy summer days and sapphire blue skies as wide an ocean‚ can bring on childhood memories of long ago. For me‚ it’s memories of when I was a cub scout and proudly wore my dark blue uniform with the yellow bandana for a tie. I remember eating slices of bright red watermelon sprinkled with shiny black seeds; and mother and I lazily swinging in the cool of a front porch swing‚ sipping a glass of iced lemonade with lemon wedges that
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These woods‚ they’re not normal. Something is off about this place‚ and I can’t figure out what. I’ve lived in Washington for all my life‚ and I never thought the Tiger Mountain Forest would be this creepy. I live on my own‚ and there are things here that attack me. The only things that don’t hurt me are the voices‚ I don’t know where they come from‚ but they’ve been with me for years‚ even before I started living here. Life here isn’t the best‚ each day is a fight for food‚ for water‚ and for sanity
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that we give out‚ and in return‚ give us oxygen. They give us shade throughout the year‚ and attract rain clouds. The roots of plants also prevent soil erosion. Forests are very important in preserving the balance of the eco-system. They provide sanctuary to wild animals. Unfortunately‚ man has been indiscriminately cutting down forests. This has resulted in a considerable decrease in rainfall in some places‚ and floods in others. The world temperatures are rising because of the decrease in the tee
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Sleeping in the Forest by Mary Oliver is a poem which‚ as with other poems she has written‚ connects things in nature to human experience and feeling. The first line held my full attention saying "I thought the earth remembered me‚" as I did not know at first why Oliver included the word thought. After closer examination and re-reading responses to this poem from Discussion Number 1‚ I came to the conclusion that this line could be talking about some sort of death‚ or what happens in the mind directly
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Some things in our culture are real‚ while other things were formed into our reality based on ideas that people invented and somehow embedded in our norms‚ values‚ and beliefs. In Allan Johnson’s book The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life‚ Practice‚ and Promise‚ Johnson makes a claim to this idea that I completely agree with. Johnson States that “Most of what we take for “reality” consists not of things as they “really” are‚ but of ideas people have developed about things as they think they
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Importance of Water: "Our most important resource‚ yet most misused resource". Gregory Drake 11036163 29/04/2013 Critical studies 3 INTRODUCTION Humans and the environment. Humans have been on this earth for thousands of years. We have learned to survive and adapt to our environmental surroundings. The relationship between the environment and us humans has changed drastically over the past few decades. Our ancestors and those before them‚ saw the environment as a haven which should
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Package ‘randomForest’ February 20‚ 2015 Title Breiman and Cutler ’s random forests for classification and regression Version 4.6-10 Date 2014-07-17 Depends R (>= 2.5.0)‚ stats Suggests RColorBrewer‚ MASS Author Fortran original by Leo Breiman and Adele Cutler‚ R port by Andy Liaw and Matthew Wiener. Description Classification and regression based on a forest of trees using random inputs. Maintainer Andy Liaw <andy_liaw@merck.com> License GPL (>= 2) URL http://stat-www.berkeley.edu/users/breiman/RandomForests
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crops and/or animals on the same land management unit. The integration can be either in a spatial mixture or in a temporal sequence. There are normally both ecological and economic interactions between woody and non-woody components in agroforestry. In agroforestry systems‚ trees or shrubs are intentionally used within agricultural systems‚ or non-timber forest products are cultured in forest settings. Knowledge‚ careful selection of species and good management of trees and crops are needed to optimize
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In his lecture “This is water” David Forest (2005) by an example with fishes illustrates the real goal of liberal arts education. He claims that the most important part of it is not to obtain knowledge but to understand a way to think. He recommends being more attentive about what is concealed around us as in the given example water for young fishes. He explained that mostly people unconsciously believe in something without even hesitating or considering the fact that they might be wrong. As he explained
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