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Lisa is Currently Reading

Lisa Vegan is currently reading

California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline

by Rosanna Xia (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: goodreads-author, history, los-angeles, non-fiction, nature, san-francisco, social-culture, science-medicine, 1-also-at-librarything, currently-reading, biography

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""We talk about the Amazon being the lungs of our planet, but studies show that coastal wetlands, left to their own devices, can capture and store three to five times more carbon dioxide than tropical forests - and sometimes much, much more."

"The best shot at saving the tidal marsh in California might just be, after all, along the San Francisco Bay."" — 16 minutes ago

Jun 05, 2024 12:07AM

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Legion of Honor 100

by Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

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Jul 31, 2024 09:25PM

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de Young 125

by Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

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Lisa’s Quotes

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

46003 likes

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

23320 likes

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

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“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

tags: kindness

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“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: causality, error, intelligence, theories

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