“As the brain of man is the speck of dust in the universe that thinks, so the leaves—the fern and the needled pine and the latticed frond and the seaweed ribbon—perceive the light in a fundamental and constructive sense. … Their leaves see the light, as my eyes can never do. … They impound its stellar energy, and with that force they make life out of the elements.” ThinkingMenLightEyeUniverseEnergyForceBrainElementsFundamentalsDustPerceiveConstructiveRibbonsSpecksSeaweedStellarFerns Author:Donald C. Peattie
“Life is a phenomenon sui generis, a primal fact in its own right, like energy. Cut flesh or wood how you like, hack at them in a baffled fury—you cannot find life itself, you can only see what it built out of the lifeless dust.” FactsLife IsEnergyCuttingBuiltWoodsFleshDustPhenomenonFuryPrimalHacksLifelessBaffled Author:Donald C. Peattie
