(1991) and Faith (1992) is often illustrated with examples of emblematical and unique species. Such exemplar species that speak to everyone from layperson to scientist, include the Coelacanth fish, the Tuatara squamate, the Kiwi bird, the Platypus mammal, the Ginkgo tree, etc. All these ...
When I twist open the jars, I’m transported to Fast Hitch’s red barn. Looking out at me from just across the road is the main house; from this angle, you wouldn’t guess it could hold the fifteen plus people that come to stay each New Year’s Eve. The side porch of the house...
My guess is that even while accepting biological evolution, people cannot break free from the tyranny of Aristotle’s “Great Chain of Being,” with humans enthroned as “King of the Hill.” We forget that, since the lineages of amphibians and amniotes diverged, both groups have had the same...
The rosettes may be related to the subject matter of the painting, since – as Bailey suggests with other shrines[4]– some motifs may have been chosen for their symbolic meaning. The Virgin Mary is also known as theMystical Rose, and a rose is traditionally her attribute in Renaissance art...
ginkgo tree and the luscious yellow leaves of it during autumn isn’t that closely related to the flute, yet it makes frequent appearance here and there in the story. Both the Republic and the Kingdom had the trees featured in the background, as if enhancing the symbolic meaning of longevi...
He was a reflection of the medium through which he received information. (This is where his other famous saying ‘the medium is the message’ comes from.) By contrast he thought electronic information, and especially television – his era’s internet – was aural. It was sound and pictures,...