Islands, the Universe, Home (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Gretel Ehrlich
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Nature writing
- Subjects: Nature, Science or scientists, Religion, West, U.S., Islands, Home, Japan or Japanese people, Seasons, Brain, Wyoming
“We live not only on the earth, but in the earth; we are part of the dynamic process of every inter-living element and system,” writes essayist Gretel Ehrlich. “I search for the ways in which landscape, plants, animals mirror our psyches and spirits, and similarities between, for example, the chemical workings of the human brain and the workings of the cosmos. All patterns connect; in natural fact there is human meaning.” For Ehrlich, the microcosm is reflected in the macrocosm, the atom in the universe, and each natural fact is a potential metaphor or spiritual insight into the...
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