“...into which each has gravitated has much the appearance of the naturalness and inevitability presented by the falling of a stone or the flowing of water . The case grows so significant at this point that I must particularize somewhat more than I have heretofore.”
Ritter, William Emerson. An Organismal Theory of Consciousness. Boston, 1919: Gorham Press. p. 77
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Google Books
“Everyone is helping them- selves to little bundles of it. A ways up the slope is a shade-shelter with a handgame in progress, the constant rhythm of the drumming on the logs, and the singing rising and falling. The woman and the two men stand on and on in the hot sun, the crowd washing around them, the older man's voice so soft we can barely hear. The younger man listens and only occasionally questions.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p.172.
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BeWild ReWild
“...Let those who sit around you hear nothing of what he says let
them hear everything of what you tell them
Let a great pain come up into your legs (feel it moving like the
earth moving beneath you)
Let the earth drop away inside your belly falling falling until
you’re left in space
Let his scream follow you across the millennia back to your
table
Let a worm the size of a small coin come out of the table where
you’re sitting....”
Rothenberg, Jerome. “11/75.” Vienna Blood & Other Poems. New York: J. Laughlin, 1980. p. 78.
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New Directions Books
“The armature of this figure is clearly human, yet his surface is stuccoed with a patchwork of animals. As we come forward in time, we can observe the animal anatomy falling away, until with the early Greeks most of the deities are sheerly human-looking, with animals as consorts—or in the case of some of the chtonian figures, such as the Medusa, bits of other kingdoms remain, like snakes for hair or tusks for teeth.”
Rothenberg, Jerome, and Diane Rothenberg. Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse toward an Ethnopoetics. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1983. p. 448.
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University of California Press
“Basic decisions of our society are made through the expressed will of the people. That is why when we see these liberties threatened, instead of falling apart, our nation becomes unified and our democracies come together as a unified group in spite of our varied backgrounds and many racial strains.”
Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Struggle for Human Rights” Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, September 28, 1948, in Allida Black, The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: Vol. 1: The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948, 900-905.
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Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
“A great wind is blowing,
heavy rain—
thick darkness;
the sailors running here and there,
shouting at one another
to pull at this and at that rope,
and the waves pouring over the ship;
landing in the rain—
the cold rain
falling steadily;
the ground wet,
all the leaves dripping,
and the rocks running with water;
the sky is cloud on cloud
in which the brief sun barely shines,
the ground snow on snow,
the cold air
wind and blast;”
Reznikoff, Charles, edited by Seamus Cooney. “New Nation.” The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975. Boston: David R. Godine, 2005, p. 166.
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WorldCat
“Every software designer tries to provide the widest possible choice of func- tionality and simultaneously minimize the risk of falling out of maintenance. The breadth of functionality offered by a new piece of software seems to depend mostly on the ambition of its designer.”
Puckette, Miller. "Max at Seventeen." Computer Music Journal 26, no. 4 (2002): p. 13. doi:10.1162/014892602320991356.
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MIT
“But to me there is something more impressive in the fall of light upon these silver pines. It seems beaten to the finest dust, and is shed off in myriads of minute sparkles that seem to come from the very heart of the trees, as if, like rain falling upon fertile soil,it had been absorbed, to reappear in flowers of light.”
Muir, John. The Writings of John Muir: Sierra Edition. Vol. I. The Mountains of California. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. p.185.
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Internet Archive
“Lightly, lightly they lodge in the brown grasses and in the tasseled needles of the pines, falling hour after hour, day after day, silently, lovingly, — all the winds hushed, — glancing and circling hither, thither, glinting against one another, rays interlocking in flakes as large as daisies; and then the dry grasses, and the trees, and the stones are all equally abloom again.”
Muir, John. The Writings of John Muir: Sierra Edition. Vol. I. The Mountains of California. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. p.152.
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“And in the development of these Nature chose for a tool,not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries, the offspring of the sun and sea.”
Muir, John. The Writings of John Muir: Sierra Edition. Vol. I. The Mountains of California. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. p.20.
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“the pebble in your mouth its blue flame the feather its blood
your hand falling releases the light
that your hand rising encloses
the shadow of pain in your eyes the shadows of clouds over water in principle your eyes
could annihilate the earth
with their shadow”
Antin, David, and Charles Bernstein. “Poem in a Minor Key.” A Conversation with David Antin. New York City, NY: Granary Books, 2002. p.30.
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University of Pennsylvania
“like sand
like blades of grass
like splinters of glass
like chalk like shells
falling like sulfur and ashes
like amber
like salt
like dirt
pulsating words
that flicker like stars
or matches that trouble dark rooms”
Antin, David, and Charles Bernstein. “Poem in a Minor Key.” A Conversation with David Antin. New York City, NY: Granary Books, 2002. p.24.
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University of Pennsylvania