How beautiful! The following quote appeared in my inbox this morning, in Rob Bresney's Astrology & Pronoia Newsletter. (If you're not familiar with his Free Will Astrology, you should check it out.) Diane Ackerman is one of those authors whom, even though I haven't actually read an entire book of hers, I like because of the places where she is mentioned or quoted, the titles of her books, and the topics she embraces. It's like she's a friend of a friend. Here's the quote:
"I guess it shouldn't surprise us to find ourselves linked with the stars. Every atom of gold or silver jewelry was created in supernovas. The water we drink, the air we breathe, the ground we walk, the complicated pouch of fluids and salts and minerals and bones we are -- all forged in some early chaos of our sun. I think it was the astrophysicist John Wheeler who remarked that we are the sun's way of thinking about itself."
-Diane Ackerman, A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis
Ah, yes, wasn't it Carl Sagan (who was her dissertation advisor) who said "We are star stuff"? A Natural History of the Senses is the book of hers that most intrigues me, though I've never read it.
ReplyDeleteFree Will Astrology: interesting concept.