508
and graphic carnivorous behaviors.
10
Versus the (by comparison) docile feeding
patterns of nearly all ungulates (including the more than 220 species of two dominant orders: the Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla—odd- and even-toed). The Bambis
of the world. And the moths and butterflies (with the exception of at least one North
American butterfly), the Harvester [Feniseca taquinius], who does, as an adult, feed
on aphids.
11
As humans, perceiving critical differentiations between our own bodies, on the
ground (perception rooted in “Renaissance themes and styles” of the south, versus
the emergent northern European preoccupations by the nineteenth century with
“venture capitalism and industrial developments”)
12
; in the waters,
13
the soils,
14
up
in the trees (the fact that “dead wood in forests” engenders “a greatly increased species richness of fungi, plants and animals”),
15
and in the air,
16
what, and how do we
view life on earth? We address this fundamental not in order to capture nearly 7.8
billion differing individual opinions, but, rather, to pose an essential sense of the life
gaze. Metaphysically, it is tantamount to the life force as manifested in perception.
While every perceiving being will personalize variation that is randomized, there
are distinct species-wide contours defining our sensory constraints (filter bandwidths in humans),
17
“plasticity of the individual components,” and so on
18
and
10 Wilson, Edward. O.; Hölldobler, Bert (September 2005). “Eusociality: Origin and consequences”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(38): 13367–71. https://doi.
org/10.1073/pnas.0505858102. PMC 1224642. PMID 16157878. Accessed May 22, 2020.
11 See https://basicbiology.net/animal/mammals/ungulate, Accessed May 22, 2020.
12 See Sense Of Place – European Landscape Photography, “Photography, Nation, Nature,” essay
by Liz Wells, Prestel, Bo Zar Books, Munich, London, New York, Foreword by Herman van
Rompuy, 2012, p. 250.
13 See, for example, Oceans – Heart Of Our Blue Planet, Gregory S. Stone, Russell A. Mittermeier,
et. al. Series Editor: Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier, CEMEX and iLCP, Arlington Virginia, 2011.
14 See “Re-animating soils: Transforming human-soil affections through science, culture and community,” by Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, The Sociological Review, February 28, 2019, https://doi.
org/10.1177/0038026119830601, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00380261198306
01?journalCode=sora
15 See “How trees talk to each other,” by Suzanne Simard, TEDx, Banff Alberta, Canada, June
2016, https://en.globalistika.ru/videolektorij-kongressa; see also, The Afterlife Of A Tree, by
Andrzej Bobiec, Jerzy M Gutowski, William F. Laudenslayer, Pawel Pawlaczyk, and Karol Zub,
WWF-Poland, Warszwa-Hajnówka, 2005, p. 204.
16 See, for example, Earth From Space, by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, GoodPlanet Foundation, Abrams,
New York, 2013.
17 See “Revised estimates of human cochlear tuning from otoacoustic and behavioral measurements,” by Christopher A. Shera, John J. Guina, Jr., and Andrew J. Oxenham, PNAS, PMC, NCBI,
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Mar 5: 99(5): 3318–3323, Published online 2002 Feb 26. https://
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.032675099, PMCID: PMC122515, PMID: 11867706, https://www.ncbi.
nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC122516/ Accessed May 22, 2020.
18 See “Phonology: An emergent consequence of memory constraints and sensory input,” by
Francisco Lacerda, Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal 16: 41–49, 2003, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, the Netherlands, 2003, p. 44. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download
?doi=10.1.1.663.6451&rep=rep1&type=pdf, Accessed May 22, 2020.
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and graphic carnivorous behaviors.
10
Versus the (by comparison) docile feeding
patterns of nearly all ungulates (including the more than 220 species of two dominant orders: the Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla—odd- and even-toed). The Bambis
of the world. And the moths and butterflies (with the exception of at least one North
American butterfly), the Harvester [Feniseca taquinius], who does, as an adult, feed
on aphids.
11
As humans, perceiving critical differentiations between our own bodies, on the
ground (perception rooted in “Renaissance themes and styles” of the south, versus
the emergent northern European preoccupations by the nineteenth century with
“venture capitalism and industrial developments”)
12
; in the waters,
13
the soils,
14
up
in the trees (the fact that “dead wood in forests” engenders “a greatly increased species richness of fungi, plants and animals”),
15
and in the air,
16
what, and how do we
view life on earth? We address this fundamental not in order to capture nearly 7.8
billion differing individual opinions, but, rather, to pose an essential sense of the life
gaze. Metaphysically, it is tantamount to the life force as manifested in perception.
While every perceiving being will personalize variation that is randomized, there
are distinct species-wide contours defining our sensory constraints (filter bandwidths in humans),
17
“plasticity of the individual components,” and so on
18
and
10 Wilson, Edward. O.; Hölldobler, Bert (September 2005). “Eusociality: Origin and consequences”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(38): 13367–71. https://doi.
org/10.1073/pnas.0505858102. PMC 1224642. PMID 16157878. Accessed May 22, 2020.
11 See https://basicbiology.net/animal/mammals/ungulate, Accessed May 22, 2020.
12 See Sense Of Place – European Landscape Photography, “Photography, Nation, Nature,” essay
by Liz Wells, Prestel, Bo Zar Books, Munich, London, New York, Foreword by Herman van
Rompuy, 2012, p. 250.
13 See, for example, Oceans – Heart Of Our Blue Planet, Gregory S. Stone, Russell A. Mittermeier,
et. al. Series Editor: Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier, CEMEX and iLCP, Arlington Virginia, 2011.
14 See “Re-animating soils: Transforming human-soil affections through science, culture and community,” by Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, The Sociological Review, February 28, 2019, https://doi.
org/10.1177/0038026119830601, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00380261198306
01?journalCode=sora
15 See “How trees talk to each other,” by Suzanne Simard, TEDx, Banff Alberta, Canada, June
2016, https://en.globalistika.ru/videolektorij-kongressa; see also, The Afterlife Of A Tree, by
Andrzej Bobiec, Jerzy M Gutowski, William F. Laudenslayer, Pawel Pawlaczyk, and Karol Zub,
WWF-Poland, Warszwa-Hajnówka, 2005, p. 204.
16 See, for example, Earth From Space, by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, GoodPlanet Foundation, Abrams,
New York, 2013.
17 See “Revised estimates of human cochlear tuning from otoacoustic and behavioral measurements,” by Christopher A. Shera, John J. Guina, Jr., and Andrew J. Oxenham, PNAS, PMC, NCBI,
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Mar 5: 99(5): 3318–3323, Published online 2002 Feb 26. https://
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.032675099, PMCID: PMC122515, PMID: 11867706, https://www.ncbi.
nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC122516/ Accessed May 22, 2020.
18 See “Phonology: An emergent consequence of memory constraints and sensory input,” by
Francisco Lacerda, Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal 16: 41–49, 2003, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, the Netherlands, 2003, p. 44. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download
?doi=10.1.1.663.6451&rep=rep1&type=pdf, Accessed May 22, 2020.
54 The Unfettered Gaze