Titlebook: Hungry Hollow; The Story of a Natur A. K. Dewdney Book 1998 A.K. Dewdney 1998 Meadow.Planet.forest.lake.plant.tree.water

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Bear,t, but the shape of the mound—its uniqueness in the otherwise flat floor of the forest—has escaped her until now. She cannot account for it, except to imagine a glacial mini-deposit, an afterthought of the ice. Or could it be an old badger-sett? (That would be something.) The mound is about eight fe

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Credence

Procyon lotor,n sky. Behind him, the starry wheel of night turns imperceptibly, renewing itself. Procyon, coldly brilliant, has just risen in the east behind him. The name means “before the dog.” Soon Canis Major will come sniffing over the horizon. It will leap in slow motion through the hours of arc in endless pursuit of Procyon.

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Dianne sapiens,t legs for grasping and carrying things. They are inquisitive like Lotor, but their judgment is less well developed. The primates have language and call themselves “human beings” or, sometimes, .. Being very good with their front paws, they have constructed large, box-like structures called “houses” in which to live.

障碍

The Hackberry,ted each within the next like Russian dolls. In the small, its strength depends on a polymer called lignin, the essence of wood. These strengths, structural and molecular, are common to all trees: root, trunk, and branch.

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高深莫测

On the Back of a Turtle,ason. In either case, we humans are much smaller than the great turtle. A look through the other end of the telescope produces a normalsized turtle with truly tiny creatures inhabiting its back. Such is ., the common snapping turtle.

使虚弱

The Meadow,s the forests and fields. There is barely room to swim. The protists and the rotifers build cysts, hard capsules in which they will curl up with what little water they can include. The algae prepare to dry. There is little time left.

吞没

The Hydraulic Plant, drying. A young toad pauses by the stem on its way to lower ground where, perchance, it will find water. A faint sigh from the stem, followed by a popping noise, startles the toad. Fearing an unknown predator, it hops quickly away. It knows nothing of plumbing.

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