Seasons of Life

Sleeping life

It is the flowers’ nighttime . . . In many parts of the world it is winter, and the ground lies cold and hard beneath snow and frost. The sleeping trees are brown and bare. The dry, dead stems of…

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People and the sea

The challenge of the sea

> The sea is a place of danger. For this very reason, it is also a > challenge. People are willing to defy its dangers, to risk their > lives, so as to conquer it in some way. And many of them have…

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Planets, Stars, and Galaxies

How the sun was born

Most scientists think our sun began as an immense cloud of gas and dust. Stars that are growing old often shoot out enormous clouds of gas and dust. The gas and dust are made up of all kinds of…

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