"When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the Palæozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime."

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Source: Langdon Winner (2010). “The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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Langdon Smith

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Langdon Smith was an American poet known for his evocative imagery and exploration of nature and imagination in his works.

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