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Voices In Time

1859 | Downe

Paradigm Shift

Darwin marvels at the grandeur of natural selection.More

Voices In Time

c. 1628 | England

Manifest Destiny

“The whole earth is the Lord’s garden & He hath given it to the Sonnes of men...”More

Voices In Time

15 BC | Rome

Divine Symmetry

Vitruvius on human design.More

Voices In Time

1687 | Cambridge

Law of the Land

Isaac Newton’s rules for investigating phenomena.More

Voices In Time

1865 | Brooklyn

Parade Music

Walt Whitman’s paean to town and country.More

Voices In Time

1845 | Berlin

Holy Communion

Alexander von Humboldt stares into the image of infinity.More

Voices In Time

1964 | Washington, DC

Free Range

Defining the wilderness.More

Voices In Time

1415 | Harfleur

The Unpruned Vine

Shakespeare on the relationship between peace and gardens.More

Voices In Time

1938 | Berlin

Animal Farm

Hitler’s animal protection laws.More

Voices In Time

1866 | Atlantic Ocean

State of Nature

For Jules Verne, the sea is everything.More

Voices In Time

1625 | London

Utopia

Francis Bacon’s colonial dreams.More

Voices In Time

1492 | Milan

Microcosm

Leonardo da Vinci compares and contrasts.More

Voices In Time

1667 | London

Distance Inexpressible

John Milton on living under a cloud of unknowing.More

Voices In Time

1783 | Weimar

Goethe in Love

Falling for a natural beauty.More

Voices In Time

1872 | New York City

Defending His Park Against the Philistines

Parks and recreation by Frederick Law Olmsted.More

Voices In Time

1851 | South Seas

The Savage Sea

“Noah’s flood is not yet subsided.”More

Voices In Time

1896 | Island of Dr. Moreau

Man of Science

H.G. Wells manufactures monsters.More

Voices In Time

c. 1846 | Walden Pond

Survival of the Fittest

Henry David Thoreau observes the kingdom of the ants. More

Voices In Time

1906 | San Francisco

The March of the Flames

Jack London watches hearts break after an earthquake.More

Voices In Time

1726 | London

The Wild Child

Wilderness as parent.More

Voices In Time

1803 | Cambridge

Population Control

Thomas Malthus on mankind living beyond its means.More

Voices In Time

c. 1600 | Salem

Staging a Puppet Show

Nathaniel Hawthorne on what lies beneath Main Street.More

Voices In Time

1818 | Ingolstadt

Intelligent Design

Frankenstein breaks through the bounds of death.More

Voices In Time

1830 | Washington, D.C.

Removing the Indians

Andrew Jackson defends the price of progress.More

Voices In Time

1933 | South Dakota

Point of Order

The “Wild West” begins. More

Voices In Time

1620 | Cape Cod

A Hideous and Desolate Wilderness

Colonists survey their new home. More

Voices In Time

1893 | Chicago

The End of History

Frederick Jackson Turner outlines the importance of frontiers. More

Voices In Time

1782 | New York

Environmental Determinism

Crèvecoeur looks at America in its proper light.More

Voices In Time

1864 | Turin

Cultivation and Its Discontents

“Man is everywhere a disturbing agent.”More

Voices In Time

1798 | Tintern Abbey

The Life of Things

William Wordsworth loves the meadows and the mountains and the woods.More

Voices In Time

c. 1861 | Amherst

Taints of Majesty

Emily Dickinson looks up at the night sky.More

Voices In Time

1912 | Yosemite

Defying the Foul Fiend

John Muir defends man’s holiest temple.More

Voices In Time

1749 | Paris

A Shortage of Rational Conjectures

On the importance of the superficial.More

Voices In Time

2008 | Dubai

Paradise Regained

The world really can revolve around you.More

Voices In Time

1902 | Congo River

Time Travel

Joseph Conrad travels to a land before time.More

Voices In Time

1803 | Washington, DC

Asking for Particulars

Thomas Jefferson’s instructions for Lewis and Clark.More

Voices In Time

1794 | London

Forests of the Night

William Blake’s fearful symmetry.More

Voices In Time

c. 4000 BC | Eden

As It Was in the Beginning

God gets down to business.More

Voices In Time

c. 1670 | Massachusetts Bay Colony

More Heaven than Earth

“No winter and no night.”More

Voices In Time

1903 | Grand Canyon

Notes from the Edge

Theodore Roosevelt asks us to think of the children.More

Voices In Time

c. 1891 | Polynesia

Natural Resources

Paul Gauguin lives differently. More

Voices In Time

1734 | London

Great Chain of Being

“Whatever is, is right.”More

Voices In Time

c. 1170 | Cîteaux

Mirror of Nature

Alain de Lille on the seasons of humankind.More

Voices In Time

1836 | Concord

All Things Are Moral

Ralph Waldo Emerson sees the unity of all things.More

Voices In Time

1690 | London

Surfeit of Riches

The natural stock is infinite.More

Voices In Time

1590 | London

Nature’s Fruitful Progenies

Edmund Spenser on life “in everlasting store.”More

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