“We lie in the lap of immense intelligence,” wrote Emerson, “which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity.” And to me, this is the beauty of Gentner’s work, and work like his. It reminds us of the creative awareness, at once scientific and poetic, that we stand on a continuum of being, of life. That we are part and parcel, along with every creature that crosses our path, of a fierce and beautiful intelligence.
