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Saved From The Brink
In the 1980s there were only about 10 Mauritius Echo Parakeets left alive, of which only three were female… Echo Parakeets had been happily evolving for millions of years on the once-uninhabited Indian Ocean island best known for the demise of the famously-doomed Dodo. When humans first arrived in the 17th century, they caused the irreversible loss of native plants and animals by interfering with the fragile equilibrium of the forests…
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Low-Key People
It isn’t that successful people like to be low key. Low-key people just tend to succeed. It isn’t that losers are rash. People with a rash disposition just tend to incur losses.
— Hong Kong writer Cho Chi Ming
The Gain Of Loss
Hardest of Life’s lessons is loss,
In which having becomes without,
When complete changes to shatters,
That what was full is, just an emptiness,
And guided becomes lost.