In nature all the growth is contemporary

In nature all the growth is contemporary. Man’s labor in the garden is successive but the weeds & plants swell root & ripen all over the farm in the same instant of time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 7:9

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  1. On October 7, 2012 at 5:53 pm Jim Foster Said:

    A letter sent to a friend of a different political party than my own…. Thanks for the time, my friend.

    ” We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology, That , in a nutshell , is how we have lurched into the early twenty-first century.” – E.O. Wilson, Common Wealth.
    So this is hard to figure out- I agree. but it is at a state that we are better off with common knowledge rather than party slogans. That’s where I put my gold- my own knowledge of what’s real.
    Sorry – if I let you down in any way Don.
    Sincerely,
    Jim Foster

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