Showing posts with label The Immense Journey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Immense Journey. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Familiar?

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     Apes were to become men, in the inscrutable wisdom of nature . . .Down on the grass by a streamside, one of those apes with inquisitive...
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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Immersion: Wendell Berry and Loren Eiseley

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"I have been walking in the woods, and have lain down on the ground to rest.  It is the middle of October, and around me, all through t...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Loren Eiseley: humanization and evolution

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In discussions about evolution, usually three factors are brought in as the selective forces behind the development of species: climatic, g...
Saturday, September 3, 2011

Loren Eiseley: from The Immense Journey

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Loren Eiseley: Sept. 3, 1911--July 9, 1977 I have read many works in which the author discussed or lamented what is variously called the...
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Monday, August 8, 2011

Loren Eiseley: from The Immense Journey

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One of Loren Eiseley's recurring themes is that evolution has not stopped with us. Some evolutionists appear to resemble creationists...
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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Loren Eiseley--the immense journey

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Loren Eiseley's The Immense Journey contains a number of essays, the first of which, "The Slit," ends with a brief statement...
Friday, September 3, 2010

Loren Eiseley: September 3, 1907--July 9, 1977

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Perhaps more than any other writer, Loren Eiseley has impressed upon me certain truths about evolution that are both fascinating and frustra...
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Friday, July 9, 2010

Loren Eiseley: Sept . 3, 1907--July 9, 1977

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From Loren Eiseley's essay "The Judgment of the Birds" On the maps of the old voyageurs it is called "Mauvaises Terres...
Thursday, September 3, 2009

Loren Eiseley: Sept 3, 1907--July 9, 1977

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Loren Eiseley: anthropologist, poet, essayist, teacher, philosopher, scientist, humanist. Back in the early '60s, I subscribed to Time ...