johnp.68344
  Junior Member

“..water picks
up mineral shadow and

plasm into billions of
designs, frames: trees,
grains, bacteria: but..”

PLEASE what does “mineral shadow” mean? more »

I just finished ‘Seven Lessons on Physics’ by Rovelli.
The last one, ‘In Closing’ has a lot of my underlinings:

(Physics) “is not as Kant imagined a priori. They are a posterior to the mental evolution of our species, and are in continuous evolution”

(We are) “immersed in this nature which made us and which directs us,
we are not homeless beings suspended between two worlds, parts of but only partly belonging to nature, with a longing for something else. No: we are home.”

Here we seem to have a lovely contradiction with end of this Ammons poem “In Memoriam…”

“…as we arrive and go:
this is just a place:
the reality we agree with,

that agrees with us,
outbounding this, arrives
to touch, joining with

us from far away:
our home which defines
us is elsewhere but not

so far away we have
forgotten it:
this is just a place.” more »