Most are industrious and friendly, minding their own business in tight-knit, long-lived communities, doing the grunt biochemical work we depend on to stay alive.
It wears its heart and its eco-friendly mind very obviously on its fluorescent sleeve.
An attention-seeking mind is an ego-friendly mind.
Let us take the most eco-friendly minds and put them in charge of managing the country's relationship to the environment.
Twelve years later, a far more conciliatory Putin, by then Russia's President, addressed the Bundestag "in the language of Goethe, Schiller, and Kant," declaring that "Russia is a friendly-minded European country" whose "main goal is a stable peace on this continent".
Fascinating, funny, friendly and family minded.
Back then the two Argentinians were the only players from the country based in the Premiership when a commercially minded friendly against Brazil was staged in the then new Emirates Stadium: "It's tango meets samba on a rock'n'roll stage" was the selling line at the time.
Deemed one of the Ten Coolest Towns in America by Budget Travel Magazine, Saugerties is one of the most down-to-earth, friendly and community minded burgs on this list, with not just one, but two independent bookstores.
