TOPIC #3
In "The Brown Wasps", Loren Eiseley writes about returning to a favorite place he knew as a child. Imagine the years have passed: you are now 65 years old, and you are planning a trip back to the area where you lived as a child. What one special place would you most want to visit?

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Sunday, October 4, 2009

Julia's Post

I thoroughly enjoy this quote because it has a meaning that can only be found by seeking further into the depths of the given facts, like an ancient treasure waiting just beyond the charted path. Mr. Eiseley speaks of people who walk down the shore as "homesick refugees of a long war". I suppose he means that modern civilization is like a war: people are racing every which way, in chaos and confusion, fighting to convince the world to agree that their idea is best. On the beach there is no war between native species: the grasses live in harmony with the crabs and the birds, for they cause no unnecessary harm. Outsiders notice this subconciously, and their stress flows away with the tide. Nature was not meant to be a war zone.
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