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How We Speak of Nature: A Plea for a Discourse of Depth
Author(s) -
Mccarthy John W.,
Tuchman Nancy C.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the heythrop journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.127
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1468-2265
pISSN - 0018-1196
DOI - 10.1111/heyj.13017
Subject(s) - plea , white (mutation) , aesthetics , philosophy , art , law , political science , biology , biochemistry , gene
Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery . Cormac McCarthy, The Road [Note 1. Cormac McCarthy, The Road (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, ...]