“
Down here
the layers of earth
are comforting
like blankets.
The soil I think of
as time. Below the caliche
I sift through sediment
from thousands of years.
Though the sharp desert light above
is another world, its pulse
courses through me.
When the mastodons
and ground sloths roamed,
its pulse coursed through me.
When the Hohokam
in the canyon
ground my pods
in the stone
its pulse coursed through me.
When the new gatherers
of the desert
learn again how to live here,
its pulse will course th
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― The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide
― The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide
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Little by little, over more than two centuries, the local stories told by rocks in all parts of the world have been stitched together into a great global tapestry - the geologic timescale. This "map" of Deep Time represents one of the great intellectual achievements of humanity, arduously constructed by stratigraphers, paleontologists, geochemists, and geochronologists from many cultures and faiths. It is still a work in progress to which details are constantly being added and finer and finer ca
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― Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
― Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
This reading group will focus on natural history. We will immerse ourselves within the realm of…more
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