Mental Floss

NATURE









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Unless you want to start a boxing match with kangaroos, don’t steal pebbles from Australia's Uluru formation.

Lucas Reilly
















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Henry David Thoreau’s account of his time in the woods is much more than just fodder for motivational posters—it’s a work of transcendentalist philosophy that shaped how people see the natural world today.

Joy Lanzendorfer