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The Path: A One-Mile Walk Through the Universe QUOTES

The Path: A One-Mile Walk Through the Universe QUOTES

1 " In one of his most popular essays, "The Colloid and the Crystal," the nature writer Joseph Wood Krutch wrote about these opposing forces in nature. "Order and obedience are the primary characteristics of that which is not alive," he wrote. "Life is rebellious and anarchical. "

― Chet Raymo , The Path: A One-Mile Walk Through the Universe

2 " We inherit the spirit world from a time when our ancestors huddled in dark shelters at night and let their imaginations draw up creatures more or less like ourselves although lacking corporeal substance. But why should we care about angels when the season's first blackbirds spread their red-shouldered wings? Why should we seek treasures in Heaven when year after year the fiddlehead ferns unfurl their silver croziers along the brook? Why should we look for out-of-body experiences when it is our bodies that connect us through the five open windows of our senses to the sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and tactile sensations of nature? "

― Chet Raymo , The Path: A One-Mile Walk Through the Universe

3 " All of my life has been a relearning to pray- a letting go of incantational magic, petition, and the vain repetition “Me, Lord, Me,” instead watching attentively for the light that burns at the center of every star, every cell, every living creature, every human heart. Learning to pray, then, as I understand it, is learning to listen with the mind and heart- making oneself attentive to each exquisite detail of the world. "

― Chet Raymo , The Path: A One-Mile Walk Through the Universe

4 " For many of us, that hole in our lives has been filled by a new story of the creation that does not require a God who intervenes in day-to-day affairs. It is an evolutionary story that reaches inward to embrace the ceaseless dance of DNA and outward to the spiraling galaxies, a story that places human life and consciousness squarely in a cosmic glow of complexifyingly energy…the universe is a unity, an interacting, evolving, and genetically related community of beings bound together in an inseparable relationship in space and time. "

― Chet Raymo , The Path: A One-Mile Walk Through the Universe