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The poems of Jodie Hollander's Nocturne gather the strands of childhood trauma, rage, grief, and loss into a strong cord that pulls the reader toward, at last, the realization that "my life is more than enough / to be alive is a blessing." It feels e ...more | |
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You'll never look at roads the same way again after reading Ben Goldfarb's Crossings. This wonderfully written, frequently funny, book takes readers on a global tour of the infrastructure that we all use but rarely think deeply about; he explores eve ...more | |
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"Near the conclusion of the book, the author asks, "What does "wild" mean, anyway?" And decides: "A wild place isn't one unchanged by humans. It's a place that changes us."
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This is a fascinating and thoughtful exploration of wolves both as real animals and as symbols. I loved the deconstruction of fairy tales from a feminist lens, woven with the real-life story of the author's obsession with the reintroduced wolf packs ...more | |
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I enjoyed this whirlwind tour through the science and philosophy of what it would mean for humans to find life on another planet. Jaime Green dives into biology, technology, language, and evolution, all the while weaving in enjoyable pop culture refe ...more | |
“We go on,” wrote Clover, “thru restless water between sheer walls of black to reddish basalt streaked with white marble.” It wasn’t truly marble, but thick ropes of Zoroaster Granite interlaced with dark schist formed 1.75 billion years ago when life on Earth had not progressed beyond a single cell. The ribbons of pale pinkish stone were once living magma in the veins of the earth, now hardened, folded, and warped by tectonic convulsions, brought into the sunlight by the thin knife of the Colorado River. These rocks were the roots of mountains that had long since eroded away.”
― Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
― Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
“People said that if you traveled too deep into the chasm, you could look up at midday and see the stars. It was rumored that whole plateaus inside of the canyon had been cut off from the outside world for so long that primordial monsters still roamed there, relicts of a ferocious past. The few scientific expeditions that had ventured inside—a few by river, the others on foot—came out with more fancy than fact. They spoke of a fabulously rich silver mine that nobody could find, and herds of feral horses no bigger than coyotes. They told campfire stories of a Petrified Man whose form shone out clearly from the canyon wall—and why not? The sculpted stone, sometimes, did look like it was trying to form living shapes, fluted into scales or fur by the constant wear of water.”
― Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
― Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
“She stood spellbound by the moonlight drifting down the cliffs, a play of silver light and deep shadow. Bell woke, too, and came to join her at the river’s edge. They stood silent beneath the cold glow of the stars, watching the nearest rapid curl and froth, playful as an otter. Finally Clover crawled back into her bedroll, feeling her air mattress deflate by slow inches (she’d lost the plug some time before). “The night was so beautiful that I couldn’t sleep,” she wrote in her journal. She had been warned about the Grand Canyon: its oppressive walls and gloomy crags, and how the sound of water striking rock preyed on travelers’ minds. She found, instead, a nameless beauty.”
― Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
― Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
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