Ecosystem
Achieving environmental results through focused science
Possibly the smallest oldest surviving ecosystem in the world, this 'garden in a bottle', planted by David Latimer in 1960, was last watered in 1972, before it was tightly sealed. David Latimer, 80, from Cranleigh in Surrey wanted to experiment how long the ecosystem will survive and to everybody's amazement, the little world is still thriving entirely on recycled air, nutrients and water. The only external thing fed to this bottled-garden was light, without which there would be no energy for plants inside to create their own food and continue to grow. Other than that, this is an entirely self-sufficient ecosystem, with the plant and bacteria in the soil working together.
A community of living organisms with the nonliving components of their environment
QuotaBillsWater rusts pipes. - WC Fields
Science is forever rewriting itself. - Unknown
Baking is science for hungry people. - Unknown
Astrology is a disease, not a science. - Maimonides
Sacrilege: Shelf for bottles of holy water - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Water that does not move is always shallow. - Sami Proverb
A tear is made of 1% water and 99% feelings. - Unknown
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. - Cyril Connolly
He was so good he would pour rose water on a toad. - Douglas Jerrold
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. - Erma Bombeck
You never miss the water till the well has run dry. - Irish Proverb
A mixture of brandy and water spoils two good things. - Charles Lamb
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. - G K Chesterton
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. - Josh Billings
I moved to Florida because you don't have to shovel water. - James Randi
Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. - Malayan Proverb
Water Hazard: Giving the kids too much to drink before a road trip - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it. - WC Fields
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. - Alan Turing
My wife's an earth sign. I'm a water sign. Together we make mud. - Henny Youngman
The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. - Dave Barry
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. - Albert Einstein
You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there. - Zig Ziglar
Warm Water Theorem: When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone rings - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Science is the ascertainment of facts and the refusal to regard facts as permanent. - Unknown
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. - Swedish Proverb
You can lead a herring to water, but you have to walk really fast or he'll die. - Rose
The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. - Ernest Hemingway
Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything. - Donald Trump
If NASA really wants to find water on Mars, they should just send me there to hit a golf ball. - Gene Jaster
I admit that mathematical science is a good thing. But excessive devotion to it is a bad thing. - Aldous Huxley
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. - Edward Bulwer Lytton
Going without food or water will kill the body, but the lack of relationship will kill the minds and spirit. - David Jeremiah
Sailor: 1. A man who makes his living on water but never touches it on shore; 2. A wolf in ship's clothing. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true. - Bertrand Russell
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. - Bertrand Russell
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science. - Mary Somerville