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Then it came again, thunderous, earthshattering, the longest, loudest and most superbly stupendous fart that I have ever heard in my life, a sound of such magnificent and prolonged volume as to appear utterly beyond human capability.

Gavin Maxwell

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Gavin Maxwell

Gavin Maxwell

Born: July 15, 1914
Died: September 7, 1969 (aged 55)
Bio: Gavin Maxwell FRSL, FIAL, FZS, FRGS was a Scottish naturalist and author, best known for his nonfiction writing and his work with otters. He wrote the book Ring of Bright Water about how he brought an otter back from Iraq and raised it in Scotland.
Known for:
  1. Ring of Bright Water (1960)
  2. Harpoon at a Venture (1952)
  3. Raven seek thy brother (1968)
  4. The House of Elrig (1965)
  5. A reed shaken by the wind (1957)

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