A thing is either alive or it isn’t; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of the origin of life by spontaneous generation, and every likelihood that Arrhenius is right when he dares to claim that life is a cosmic phenomenon, something that drifts between the spheres, like light, and like light transiently descends upon those fit to receive it.
The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is… - Donald C. Peattie
The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is…
- Donald C. Peattie
No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it. - Donald C. Peattie
No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it.
The last fling of winter is over ... The earth, the soil itself, has a dreaming quality about it. It is warm now to the touch; it has come alive; i… - Donald C. Peattie
The last fling of winter is over ... The earth, the soil itself, has a dreaming quality about it. It is warm now to the touch; it has come alive; i…
What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place. - Donald C. Peattie
What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.
A thing is either alive or it isn’t; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of the origin of life by spontaneou… - Donald C. Peattie
A thing is either alive or it isn’t; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of the origin of life by spontaneou…
I have often started off on a walk in the state called mad-mad in the sense of sore-headed, or mad with tedium or confusion; I have set forth dull, n… - Donald C. Peattie
I have often started off on a walk in the state called mad-mad in the sense of sore-headed, or mad with tedium or confusion; I have set forth dull, n…
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right. - Donald C. Peattie
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because … - Donald C. Peattie
A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because …
All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest footwork for this cal… - Donald C. Peattie
All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest footwork for this cal…
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