How We Speak of Nature: A Plea for a Discourse of Depth

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were map...

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Authors: Mccarthy, John W. (Author) ; Tuchman, Nancy C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2018]
In: Heythrop journal
Year: 2018, Volume: 59, Issue: 6, Pages: 944-958
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
CB Christian life; spirituality
NBD Doctrine of Creation
NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics
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Summary:Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery. Cormac McCarthy, The Road
ISSN:1468-2265
Contains:Enthalten in: Heythrop journal
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/heyj.13017