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Ellen Meloy
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born
June 21, 1946
in The United States
died
November 04, 2004
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The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
  4.06 avg rating — 257 ratings
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2002
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4 editions
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Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
4.14 avg rating — 90 ratings
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2005
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Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River
4.30 avg rating — 50 ratings
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published
1994
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The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest
  3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings
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published
1999
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The Global Citizen
by Donella H. Meadows, Ellen Meloy 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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published
1991
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“The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain. Homo sapiens gangs up to 70 percent of its sense receptors solely for vision, to anticipate danger and recognize reward, but also—more so—for beauty.”
― Ellen Meloy, The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
― Ellen Meloy, The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
“A map, it is said, organizes wonder.”
― Ellen Meloy, The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest
― Ellen Meloy, The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest
“...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.”
― Ellen Meloy
― Ellen Meloy
