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For over a century, an evolving microcosm of Anthropology’s turbulent history has hidden behind the staid façade of the American Museum of Natural History. From an insider’s perspective, the well-known ethnologist Stan Freed engagingly introduces us to an amazing cast of explorers, eccentrics, idealists, pranksters and forbidding intellectual - an unlikely mix that played a key role in establishing the science of Anthropology as we know it today. ↗


— Ian Tattersall


#explorer #history #museums #nature

I knew by the signs it would be a hard winter. The hollies bore a heavy crop of berries and birds stripped them bare. Crows quarreled in reaped fields and owls cried in the mountains, mournful as widows. Fur and moss grew thicker than usual. Cold rains came, driven sideways through the trees by north winds, and snows followed. ↗


— Sarah Micklem


#folklore #nature #predictions #weather #winter

The nation’s forests were being cut faster than they could grow back. In the 1890s, while Aldo was growing up, the United States had begun to set aside forest reserves to protect the trees. Then, while Aldo was in high school, one of the country’s first forestry schools opened at Yale University. Aldo knew immediately what he wanted to do. If he could become a forester, he could get paid to work in the woods all day. How could a job get any better? ↗


— Marybeth Lorbiecki


#wilderness #yale #nature

I walk in the direction she tells me. I feel my pores opening, sweat and heat radiating out of my body. A firefly dances in the distance, leaving tracers, and if I turn my head from side to side, I see long yellow-green streaks that cut through my vision and burn in front of my retinas even after the light that sparked them has gone. I emerge from the mango grove into a field. In the distance unseen trucks pass with a sound like the ocean licking the sand. A tracery of darkness curls into a starry sky, a solitary pipal tree making itself known by an absence of light, like a flame caught in a photographer's negative, frozen, calling me. ↗


— Mohsin Hamid


#fireflies #nature #pakistan #pores #trace

It is much easier to condemn Islam and 'oppressive Muslim men' than to unpack the intricate relationships between global politics related to empire building and capitalist expansion as well as regional and national struggles revolving around political and economic power and resources. ↗


— Nadje Al-Ali


#iraq #islam #islamophobia #muslim-men #muslim-women

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals. ↗


— Christopher Hitchens


#atheist #god #noremorse #religion

Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with. ↗


— Christopher Hitchens


#atheist #god #noremorse #religion #religion

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation. ↗


— Christopher Hitchens


#atheist #god #noremorse #science #religion

What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. ↗


— Christopher Fry


#clean #halo #keep #more #only

The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them. ↗


— Peter Redgrove


#magic #magick #mystery-religions #mysthology #occult






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