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The Star Thrower1 comment

Steven Goodheart wrote 1 month ago: Today’s post shares something that is very close to my heart. It’s an excerpt from the writings of t … more →

Tags: Buddhism, metta, Metta for Animals, Metta for Others, Bodhisattva, compassion, death, Life, Star Thrower

Day 258 September 15

the5thlineproject wrote 2 months ago: “The march of glaciers may be a cleansing but in man genocide is a pettiness.”~~from the … more →

Tags: 5th line, 5th line project, Books, Literature, Poetry, The Innocent Assassins

Late Night Musings on Bugs and Art4 comments

T.W. Burger wrote 3 months ago: (Note: This is a slightly written version of a column written many years ago.) ===================== … more →

Tags: animals, day in the life, Education, gardening, Observation, Personal column, Seasons, Storytelling, wildlife

THE WHEEL OF THE YEAR

hokku wrote 4 months ago: In her bittersweet children’s book Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt writes: “The first … more →

Tags: hokku, Nature, Poetry, writing, Zen, transience, Haikai, autumn, Kyoroku

Faces Watching8 comments

flandrumhill wrote 6 months ago: Do you ever get the feeling you’re being watched?  If you’re in the woods, you probably … more →

Tags: mammals, The Salt Marsh Trail, Nature, Canada - Nova Scotia, wildlife, Salt Marsh, woods, forest, Darkness

chrissie abbott wrote 7 months ago: We (humans) see ourselves as the culmination and the end, and if we do indeed consider our passing, … more →

Tags: led zeppelin

Searching for Meanings at the Beach7 comments

flandrumhill wrote 8 months ago: Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding sh … more →

Tags: seashore, Rainbow Haven Beach, Nature, Canada - Nova Scotia, stones, beach, seashell, Shore, tides

Loren Eiseley on the Miraculous2 comments

redstarcafe wrote 9 months ago: I know that the world “miraculous” is regarded dubiously in scientific circles because o … more →

Tags: Environment, Art, spirituality, Books, History, Nature, Science, Design, Ecology

The Slow Lives of Stones3 comments

redstarcafe wrote 9 months ago: I suppose that nothing living had moved among those great stones for centuries. They lay toppled aga … more →

Tags: Environment, Art, Photography, spirituality, Literature, Books, Nature, archaeology, Ecology

The Inner Galaxy of Loren Eiseley2 comments

redstarcafe wrote 9 months ago: Though the case of man is complicated, it seems evident that … a remarkable doorway opened whe … more →

Tags: animals, spirituality, Literature, Books, Nature, Culture, Star Thrower, Inner Galaxy, St. Francis

The Secret of Life4 comments

Ken wrote 1 year ago: The pond in this photograph has been erased from maps by a government distrustful of “the publ … more →

Tags: Nature Writings, Darwin, Eiseley, Nature, Life, nature writing

A Still Moment, and All the Strange Hours

Ken wrote 1 year ago: In Eudora Welty’s story, A Still Moment, the student scientist and artist Audubon shot and killed a … more →

Tags: Birds, Theology, Eiseley, Welty, Eudora Welty, Science, theodicy, time

Job 5:23, Loren Eiseley and Evolution

Ken wrote 1 year ago: At the beginning of The Last Neanderthal, Loren Eiseley quoted the Book of Job: “For you shall … more →

Tags: desert, Nature Writings, Evolution, Theology, Eiseley

Love and Evolution

Ken wrote 1 year ago: In The Inner Galaxy, Loren Eiseley remembered how much he loved an old seagull who sat near to him o … more →

Tags: Nature Writings, Evolution, Darwin, Eiseley, Love

On the Ability to See the Past and the Future2 comments

Ken wrote 1 year ago: In Darwin’s Century, in the second chapter, titled “The Time Voyagers,” Loren Eiseley wrote that unt … more →

Tags: Evolution, Darwin, Eiseley, Religion, Faith

'Not yet, not yet.'

antiplath wrote 3 months ago: I’d never heard of Loren Eiseley until today. Wish I could have taken a class from him. Or bou … more →

Tags: writer's almanac, Poetic Essays


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