Sunday, March 31, 2024

Earth Rock Ice Water Cloud Wind Sun Stars Life

The streams break up; 
the ice goes to the sea. 
Then sails the fish hawk overhead,
 looking for his prey
Henry Thoreau, April 14, 1852

Generalize the anthropic principle to all life: What is it called that Nature is exactly suited to all life?

A spring thought walking in woods at dusk after hearing peepers and wood frog for the first time.

Feeling everything is perfect for me
And realizing so it is for every leaf.
And every creature in the woods
now renewed.

March 31, 2016

melting snows seek the sea
spawning fish flow upstream:
spring mystery solved!

See A Week, Wednesday ("I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources."); Walden, Economy ("Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.") See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Nature is genial to man (the anthropic principle)

A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau
"A book, each page written in its own season,
out-of-doors, in its own locality.”
~edited, assembled and rewritten by zphx © 2009-2024

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