An Unknown Ocean: The Other Rhythms of Life. Circadian rhythms are well known to biologists, with hundreds of studies analyzing fundamental links between sunlight, cellular clocks, hormones and metabolism function.
But for the first few billion years of Earthly life, it wasn’t just solar cycles that mattered. Lunar and tidal cycles were just as important, and for modern marine creatures they still are. Yet these cycles have received only a smidgen of scientific attention. Excerpts from Emerson's Nature. Introduction Our age is retrospective.
It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. Letters to the Future. PonderAbout.com. Stardust Lawrence Krauss Tags: science Posted in Facts Comments Hey Posted by Jon on 7/8/2010 6:19:26 PM I prefer the way Carl Sagan said it: The Universe is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be.
Posted by Gary on 7/12/2010 1:23:41 AM. How to get a Seal to hug you . "You Are My Sweetest Downfall" Fine Art Print by Michael Walters [5124614-1] - RedBubble.com. Growing is Forever. A Man Said to the Universe by Stephen Crane : The Poetry Foundation [poem] : Find Poems and Poets. Discover Poetry. Bill Moyers Journal . W.S. Merwin. June 26, 2009 "When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything.
You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No, that's not it. There are no other words in which you mean it. Bill Moyers interviews poet W.S. W.S. W. A journal of justice, hope and history: Earth Consciousness. Christian Wiman is a poet and editor of Poetry magazine.
He was born in West Texas in 1966, forty-seven years ago. He graduated from Washington and Lee University, and has published two books of poetry as well as an eloquent and widely admired collection of reflections on the relation of poetry and religious faith, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer (Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2013). Quotes About Water. GMD 4 Water Quotes, Etc. Water, Rain, Fountains, Pools, Ditches, Rivers: Quotes, Poems, Sayings, Quotations. Tree Quotes, Sayings, Verses, Poems. Related Quotes Environment Nature Arbor Day Flowers If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. ~Henry David Thoreau You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night. ~Denise Levertov I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. The trees are God's great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green Across the world His thoughts serene.
I never saw a discontented tree. Nature Mysticism: Quotations, Links, Bibliography, Notes, Essays. Nature Mysticism Quotes Bibliography Links Notes Spirituality Walking Gardening Druids Cloud Hands Blog Research by Michael P.
Garofalo. Eve,ensler,quote,quotes,words,courage-4cbe9ccdd83fb21125298c15d4308e5a_h.jpg (500×344) Foreword, Preface, and Introduction. From Walden by Henry Thoreau, with notes and analysis. The Story of Silent Spring. The Story of Silent Spring How a courageous woman took on the chemical industry and raised important questions about humankind's impact on nature.
Although their role will probably always be less celebrated than wars, marches, riots or stormy political campaigns, it is books that have at times most powerfully influenced social change in American life. Thomas Paine's Common Sense galvanized radical sentiment in the early days of the American revolution; Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe roused Northern antipathy to slavery in the decade leading up to the Civil War; and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, which in 1962 exposed the hazards of the pesticide DDT, eloquently questioned humanity's faith in technological progress and helped set the stage for the environmental movement.
Carson, a renowned nature author and a former marine biologist with the U.S. Treebeard. Treebeard (Sindarin: Fangorn) is a fictional character from J.
R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy writings. The eldest of the species of Ents, he is said to live in the ancient Forest of Fangorn and stands fourteen feet (4 m) in height and is tree-like in appearance, with leafy hair and a rigid structure.[1][dead link] Fangorn Forest lies next to Isengard where Saruman the White resides. His motto is "Do not be hasty Literature[edit] Ent. The Ents appear in The Lord of the Rings as ancient shepherds of the forest and allies of the free peoples of Middle-earth during the War of the Ring.
The Ent who figures most prominently in the book is Treebeard, who (credibly) claims to be the oldest creature in Middle-earth. At the time The Lord of the Rings takes place, there are no young Ents (Entings) because the Entwives (female Ents) were lost. Treebeard - Lord of the Rings - Tolkien Wiki. {{{image}}} {{{caption}}} Titles Oldest of the Ents ? Earth consciousness.
Earth consciousness has been practised by indigenous people for many centuries, often through meditation and reflection on their simple lives and surroundings. Their attunement to nature is borne out by quotes and sayings of the wise ones passed down through the ages. We can be grateful for these pearls of wisdom that are so applicable in our rushed lives right now. As one who loves to meditate in quiet, peaceful places, let me share some beautiful spaces with you as we ponder on the wisdom of people gone by. Honor the sacred Honor the Earth, our Mother Honor the Elders Honor all with whom we share the Earth Four-leggeds, two-leggeds, winged ones Swimmers, crawlers, plant and rock people Walk in balance and beauty Native American Elder. Earth Consciousness.