I was streaming over ancient sea beds thrust aloft where giant reptiles had once sported I was wearing down the face of time and trundling cloud-wreathed ranges into oblivion." "Moving with me, leaving its taste upon my mouth and spouting under me in dancing springs of sand, was the immense body of the continent itself, flowing like the river was flowing, grain by grain, mountain by mountain, down to the sea.
The truth is that we are all potential fossils still carrying within our bodies the crudities of former existences, the marks of a world in which living creatures flow with little more consistency than clouds from age to age." "I would never again excavate a fossil under conditions which led to so vivid an impression that I was already one myself.
I found myself essentially highlighting entire pages of text and slamming the book down in awe and whispering a reverent "Holy shit" every thirty seconds.Ĭhoice quotes, even though taken out of context they don't have nearly the same impact: But it's seriously some of the most beautiful and evocative yet seemingly effortless writing I've ever read. The prose in the first four chapters of this book is life-changing, which is the last thing I expected to say about a book of nature essays.
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