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Author Topic:   E.O. Wilson Wants Us to Leave Half of the Earth Alone
Omnivorous
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Message 8 of 29 (768081)
09-06-2015 10:16 AM
Reply to: Message 7 by AZPaul3
09-06-2015 3:49 AM


Re: Altruism or just Truism
quote:
But, small, filthy, unwinged,
You will soon be crouching
Alone, with maybe some dim racial notion
Of being the last, but none of how much
Your unnoticed going will mean:
How much the timid poem needs
The mindless explosion of your rage,
The glutton’s internal fire the elk’s
Heart in the belly, sprouting wings,
The pact of the blind swallowing
Thing, with himself, to eat
The world, and not to be driven off it
Until it is gone, even if it takes
Forever. I take you as you are
And make of you what I will,
Skunk-bear, carcajoy, bloodthirsty
Non-survivor.
Lord, let me die but not die
Out.

James Dickey, from For the Last Wolverine

"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."

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