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Of course, toward what end? The perennial salvation? Some private retreat,
wherein a modicum of consolation devolves to the lucky ones in possession of a few
books, consoling caches of strong painkillers, a friend, a bottle of fresh water. Is
there any other plausible vision of the individual in a biosphere that has been so
maligned by that person’s kind?
18
And for all that, on the morning of AD 1000, the business of frenetic unfazed
biochemistry went on as usual the next day.
18 Numerous works have easily intimated ecological forensics and the power of human choice:
Edward O. Wilson’s Nature Revealed -Selected Writings, 1949-2006, John Hopkins University
Press, Baltimore, Md., 2006; Objectivity, by Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Zone Books,
New York, 2007; The Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1985;
Wild Chorus, by Peter Scott, Country Life Limited, London 1938; Animals and Men – Their relationship as reflected in Western art from prehistory to the present day, by Kenneth Clark, William
Morrow & Co., New York, 1977; Heinrich Kühn – The Perfect Photograph, With Contributions by
M. Faber, A. Gruber, F. Heilbrun, A. Mahler and A. Tucker, Hatje Cantz, Albertina, Wien and Paris,
2010; A Day In The Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, LACMA, Los Angeles
1985; and most connected in form and concept, Ernest Thompson Seton – The Life and Legacy of
an Artist and Conservationist, by David L. Witt, Foreword by David Attenborough, Gibbs Smith,
Layton, UT, 2010. In addition, we would note Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate
Rationalist, by Richard Dawkins (Random House, New York 2017; and Land & Life: A Selection
From the Writings of Carl Ortwin Sauer, University of California Press, Berkeley 1974.
Fig. 96.2 One possible future: harmony, Professor Francisco Petrucci-Fonseca with friend, at the
Iberian Wolf Recovery Center in Portugal. (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
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Of course, toward what end? The perennial salvation? Some private retreat,
wherein a modicum of consolation devolves to the lucky ones in possession of a few
books, consoling caches of strong painkillers, a friend, a bottle of fresh water. Is
there any other plausible vision of the individual in a biosphere that has been so
maligned by that person’s kind?
18
And for all that, on the morning of AD 1000, the business of frenetic unfazed
biochemistry went on as usual the next day.
18 Numerous works have easily intimated ecological forensics and the power of human choice:
Edward O. Wilson’s Nature Revealed -Selected Writings, 1949-2006, John Hopkins University
Press, Baltimore, Md., 2006; Objectivity, by Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Zone Books,
New York, 2007; The Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1985;
Wild Chorus, by Peter Scott, Country Life Limited, London 1938; Animals and Men – Their relationship as reflected in Western art from prehistory to the present day, by Kenneth Clark, William
Morrow & Co., New York, 1977; Heinrich Kühn – The Perfect Photograph, With Contributions by
M. Faber, A. Gruber, F. Heilbrun, A. Mahler and A. Tucker, Hatje Cantz, Albertina, Wien and Paris,
2010; A Day In The Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, LACMA, Los Angeles
1985; and most connected in form and concept, Ernest Thompson Seton – The Life and Legacy of
an Artist and Conservationist, by David L. Witt, Foreword by David Attenborough, Gibbs Smith,
Layton, UT, 2010. In addition, we would note Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate
Rationalist, by Richard Dawkins (Random House, New York 2017; and Land & Life: A Selection
From the Writings of Carl Ortwin Sauer, University of California Press, Berkeley 1974.
Fig. 96.2 One possible future: harmony, Professor Francisco Petrucci-Fonseca with friend, at the
Iberian Wolf Recovery Center in Portugal. (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
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