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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (7095)	3/1/2001 11:30:32 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I am in good company--if indeed that IS a paraphrase-- One of the things that makes us distinctively human is our ability to marvel at existence itself, including the existence of nature. As Emily Dickinson said, to live is so startling it leaves little room for other occupations. This is the cultural, distinctively human, reflective sense of 'live'. To live in this sense is to be the kind of person, the kind of being that is startled by the very existence of the world, and who feels diminished by anything that threatens the existence of that world, anything that makes that world a less marvellous place in which to live. (Ethics and the Environment) "To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations." Emily Dickinson To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations though Friends are if possible an event more fair." Emily Dickinson "To live is so startling it leaves time for little else." - Emily Dickinson And a REAL paraphrase that even I object to-- "To love is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else."