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If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights.


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BILL WATTERSON From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
BILL WATTERSON Black holes are where God divided by zero.
BILL WATTERSON The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried ...
BILL WATTERSON I remember being unbelievable bummed when 'Freaks and Geeks' was canceled.
BILL HADER We use the people who are in the bullpen producing.
BILL EVANS After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detec...
BILL DEDMAN There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Was...
BILL GATES The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in m...
BILL DEDMAN In the Woodstock movie, you see Justin, my son, who is now a filmmaker, being carried off by my wife...
BILL KREUTZMANN The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for ten...
BILL GATES