In part, Mr Picou says, this is due to the nature of man-made disasters.
Man-made technology is great, but Mother Nature is the greatest inventor of them all -- and scientists are discovering new ways to take advantage of the tools found in nature.
The penny-pinching nature of America's second-wealthiest man is legendary.
Mr Moran said the words were reminiscent of the early sections of Neruda's great 1945 poem Heights of Macchu Picchu, which contrasts the "spontaneous and ceaseless self-renewal of Nature with Man's impermanence".
So began yet another remarkable chapter in the storied career of a man already known for turning the boom-bust nature of the electronics sector to his advantage.
Those approaches are mostly based on so-called metamaterials, man-made materials with properties that do not occur in nature.
They were the descendants of a Florida strain transplanted to the Golden State's reservoirs in 1959, a tinkering with nature that filled "a perfect, though man-made, niche, " explains Chris G.
Down in the rock pools, then, the news seems to be mixed: nature is showing a remarkable resilience in the face of man-made interference, but it is still far from clear what the wider impact will be from small changes to local ecology.
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The railway is a Soviet triumph of man over nature, built in an inhospitable land of extreme winter cold and mosquito-cloud filled summers.
The movie is saved from the usual stiffness of the bio-pic form by the emotionally unsettled nature of its hero, a man vamped and dominated by his adoring mother (Judi Dench), afraid of his own sexuality, yet desperate for companionship.
"By the very nature of his game - always looking to get the ball forward, taking a man on, trying a trick - he's going to make mistakes, " adds Blunt.
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