Andrew’s Reviews > The Coasts of California: A California Field Atlas > Status Update
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“Will we forever invest in fighting the intractable accretion of sand? Or, over the next several centuries, will we retreat from a rising sea level and watch the littoral creep of sand swallow Golden Gate Park? From our mortal perspective, it is difficult—maybe even tragic—to imagine our stubborn species acquiescing to the process of entropic planetary forces. It is also, I submit, beautiful:
— Aug 18, 2023 06:09AM
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on binomial nomenclature: “I enjoy the scientific names of species. They sound poetic. I like to let them sit in my mouth and emerge slowly like a lyrical phrase.…Embedded in the sound is the witness of being.”
— Oct 23, 2023 11:45PM
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we are not the final word in nature; in fact, our mistakes seem to be as numerous as our accomplishments. The economic powerhouse of northern San Francisco is largely built on a substrate that liquefies in even a minor earthquake; is this a telling metaphor, a sober warning, or simply an engineering problem to be faced, like any other challenge presented to us by the natural world?”
— Aug 18, 2023 06:09AM
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“Either life is disposable to us, or we’re bewildered by our own responsibility in erasing evolution’s networks.”
RIP Xerces blue butterfly in order to build San Francisco
— Aug 18, 2023 06:03AM
RIP Xerces blue butterfly in order to build San Francisco
