Posted on January 10, 2022 by Esther Chase
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The word cairn comes from Gaelic càrn, meaning heap of stones or rocky hill.
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Posted on January 9, 2022 by Esther Chase
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“The robin does not wait to ask if you like his song; he sings because he must.” —Maud Slye (1869-1954), pathologist and poet
Posted on January 9, 2022 by Esther Chase
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“The geneticist Bentley Glass, in his address on becoming president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1970, argued that the ethical problem was not that people would embrace these new technologies but that they might reject them.” —The Code Breaker
