“Meeting Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)”
By Craig Holdrege
To discover the first bloodroot plants poking through the damp leaf litter in early spring, you have to get down on your knees and look carefully. Each small grayish-green bud swaddled in its leaf is inconspicuous, and yet, as Craig describes, is also “a powerful image of becoming.” In this in-depth article, he shares the dynamics of bloodroot’s development and its transforming activity in the world.
“Natural Selection and the Purposes of Life”
By Stephen L. Talbott
Biologists have long rejected the idea of teleology, or purposiveness, in evolution, while claiming that the appearance of purposiveness in organisms is explained by natural selection. Here Steve examines the difficulties with this claim. This article is part of a longer book chapter entitled, “Teleology and Evolution — Why Can’t We Have ‘Evolution on Purpose’?,” which you can read here.
Notes and Reviews
“Jochen Bockemühl: A Remembrance”
By Craig Holdrege
Honoring the memory of a beloved teacher of Goethean science, Craig shares his personal experience of learning to observe phenomena with Jochen Bockemühl.
“Awakening to Landscape”
By Jochen Bockemühl
A short excerpt and four drawings from Bockemühl’s book on relating to freshness in landscape.
“A Commitment to the Phenomena of Color”
By Craig Holdrege
A brief highlight of the work of Michael Wilson, who developed a disciplined, phenomenological approach to understanding light and color.
New Editions of Noteworthy Books
An in-depth study of the heart, and a one-of-a-kind edition on animal forms, are new on our reading list.
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