"Science cannot be kept safe from poetry, the cyclotron must deal with St. Francis and his Little Flowers, and the wolf cannot escape the forces of the lupines blue with spring."
"......millions then billions of years stroke the ball spinning in space and none of this is considered as important as winning the West, pioneering, conquest, civilization, but all these small moments are details in the long chords of time pealing through nights and days. Sometimes our ideas of history look more like neurosis than an appetite for understanding."
"......the books arrive -- those histories -- and all this is tidied up and made sense of, history becomes the final suicide where we block ourselves off from the earth, from the ancestors, from ourselves, and from hungers that feed our dread......"
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