THIRTYARDS
Bass Fishing. At the pace of the saltwater flyfishing coast. Wexford, Ireland – est 2003.
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“Any of us can be susceptible to the subtle social pressure that induces groupthink: It’s perfectly possible that things you have come to accept unquestioningly as true might have been learned in this way.”— Arthur C. Brooks
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“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it,…
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“So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”
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The moment when, after many yearsof hard work and a long voyageyou stand in the centre of your room,house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,knowing at last how you got there,and say, I own this, is the same moment when the trees unloosetheir soft arms from around you,the birds take back their language,the cliffs fissure and…
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The plane comes down behind enemy linesand you don’t speak the language.A girl takes pity on you:she is Mother Theresa walking among the poor,and her eyes have attained night vision.In an orchard, drenched in blue light,she changes your bandages and soothes you.All day her voice is balm,then she lowers you into the sunset.Hers is the…
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Whale falls–the ecosystems thatcoalesce around cetacean carcasses when they sink to the seafloor-can provide nutrients to ocean life for decades. Science journalist SarahDeWeerdt explains ‘They are among the most biodiverse habitats in the deep sea. Nearly 500 species have been found on whale falls, and at least 100 of them are thought to be whale-fall…
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