Browsing by Author "Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, publisher"
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Item Open Access Hewn and cleft from this rock: meditation at the PreCambrian contact(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1971) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, publisherEncounter with the Precambrian contact exposed at Pardee Point in Doe River Gorge, East Tennessee, brings reflections about human origins, evolving and cleft from ancient rocks. Geochemistry has its sequel in biochemistry. The hiker crosses that fossil sequence recorded in the strata. A discontinuity is crossed with the coming of humans: A sheriff crossing the contact in search of moonshiners. The rocks are a sacrament that overlie a Presence.Item Open Access Lake Solitude: the individual in wildness(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1975) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, publisherLake Solitude, in remote Rocky Mountain National Park, offers a solitary traveler a place to seek continuities and discontinuities with nature, a communion of opposites. To travel into the wilderness is to go into what one is not, so that in returning to its natural complement, mind grasps itself. Nature thrusts humans into an immense solitude, but that is her grandest gift. This environmental resistance frees us for and impels us toward centered personality.