![]() At least this is the advocacy I find in Eiseley and how deeply his writing has impacted my life. But to that we need to stop, to listen deeply, to watch with all our senses attuned, to seek out the small and out of the way or overlooked, to redeem with the witness and hand of our love, of God's love all creation as far as our wisdom and ability may carry us and not let politics or other such transitory and manufactured worries block such empathy. Such empathy and respect are timeless lessons, if only we could learn them. Yet there is also dignity and honor toward those who have come before and the connection between such previous lives and our own is a constant theme in Eiseley's writings as is the dignity and value of each life on it's own no matter how unknown or isolated, brief or small. The fragility and dynamism of this life, our life, all life, is fully on display in this poem. After growing up in Nebrasks, he became an anthropologist, naturalist, professor (at Penn State), philosopher, environmentalist, essayist and poet. ![]() Eiseley was one of those renaissance people. ![]() Eiseley JSTOR and the Poetry Foundation are collaborating to digitize, preserve, and extend access to Poetry. ![]() Eiseley published The Cabin in his book of poems - Notes of an Alchemist (1972). Back to Previous September 1939 Tasting the Mountain Spring By Loren C. ![]()
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