Many people know me as a naturalist, so this new book on language will come as a bit of a surprise and deserves some explanation. In fact, my love of language is inseparable from my love of the natural world and
the lens we’ve used to define “our world,” has become inadequate, has become too narrow. An epiphany, or an event shakes us out of our version of reality, and concepts that relate to our previous way of thinking feel empty and are no longer relevant, or what we might...
CHAPTER 5 Transforming Space: Nature, Education, and Home in Charlotte Forten and William Wells Brown The slave narrative was not only formative for a postwar African American writing tradition in general but also decisively shaped the development of the environmental dimensions of this ...
Let’s define a metric which can show to what extent the empirical paths are longer than the shortest possible path. We will call the difference between the length of the empirical paths and the shortest path as the “stretch” of the empirical path. In the example of Fig.7.2, the shorte...
At our last meeting, you and I had a long discussion about the nature of European culture and the characteristics that distinguish it from the culture that belonged to Russia in ancient times, traces of which to this day not only can be observed in the c
Her thoughts strayed back to her childhood and her old home, and she sat absorbed in a reverie."How thoughtful he is for me!" she said to herself softly; "how truly considerate! I will obey him in this and in everything. I will make this young lady's acquaintance-not just yet, ...