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The woolly mammoths occupied northern Eurasia and northern North America; the Columbian mammoth's range was transcontinental, from Alaska south throughout most of the United States, and went from an elevation of 9,000 feet in the mountains of Utah to sea level in Florida and Mexico. It seems unlikely that such adaptable animals could have been totally wiped out by even the most severe weather conditions.
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― Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America
― Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America
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Art should return to its roots, to cosmology, to rite, and to ceremony. The religious nature of art is its true meaning. Modern art's commitment to "emotion" and "feeling" or to abstract principles of design is, by Pleistocene standards, a sacrilegious act, just as narcotics belong not in a recreational but in a religious setting. In most small-scale societies there is regular dialogue on divinatory and dream experience that gets translated into art.
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― Coming Home to the Pleistocene
― Coming Home to the Pleistocene
The world, spinning and turning in turmoil. Every movement is judged by fate and every breath co…more
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