People who give up their own land too readily need careful weighing, exactly as do those who are so with their convictions. Even Solomon said that the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth. One gives up the part for the whole only to discover that without parts there is no whole.

It's going to turn the land into a marsh for the people who live on the end of the street touching the river. We already get wetter than what other parts of the county are used to, but once you start building and moving all that dirt around I can only assume its going to impact those houses.

Land snails, which we normally think of as being rather slow moving, can actually disperse enormous distances by hitching rides on birds.

Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.

Do any other board members want to start over? I certainly hope not, but let's vote on it.

The United States lost more men from battle wounds and disease in the Civil War than in any other war of its history, including the Second World War. The battle front stretched from Pennsylvania to New Mexico, and included also the seven seas.