Invisible Beasts
“It is the only one caused by a single organism capable of seeing the big picture, understanding its own destructive role, and changing that. But we don’t see the big picture unless it’s shown to us. Once, I had a moment of fortunate epiphany—a moment granted sometimes to naturalists—when the big picture comes overwhelmingly together, and you actually see the meaning of Lynn Margulis’s apothegm: “Life is its own inimitable history.” If I saw the big picture, though, it wasn’t accidental: it was ...because I had to make a choice.
The Golden Egg THE DAY COMES WHEN I walk home through a waist-high meadow of panic grass, goldenrod, and lace saucers of wild carrot, and I see, as if I had startled it into being, a plane of green glittering moving leftward like a perturbed school of fish in the clearest of waters. I walk where those newly falling leaves drift by, and have to make up my mind whether a russet flutter in the grass is a monarch butterfly or a dead leaf—the last of its season, or the first?MoreLess
The Golden Egg THE DAY COMES WHEN I walk home through a waist-high meadow of panic grass, goldenrod, and lace saucers of wild carrot, and I see, as if I had startled it into being, a plane of green glittering moving leftward like a perturbed school of fish in the clearest of waters. I walk where those newly falling leaves drift by, and have to make up my mind whether a russet flutter in the grass is a monarch butterfly or a dead leaf—the last of its season, or the first?MoreLess
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