Hope Jahren Quotes

The Only Way To Do Good Soil Science Is To Put A Splitter And A Lumper Together In The Soil Pit And Let Them Fight It Out Until They Achieve Something That They Both Know Must Be Correct Because Neither Of Them Feels Satisfied. Left To Her Own Devices, The Lumper Will Dig For Three Hours, Mark The Horizons In Ten Minutes, And Then Go On Her Merry Way. Left To His Own Devices, The Splitter Will Dig A Hole And Crawl Inside, Never To Be Seen Again. Thus Splitters And Lumpers Are Both Productive Only When Forced Into Bickering Collaboration, And Though Together They Produce Great Maps, They Rarely Return From Field Trips Still On Speaking Terms. Once

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