By Sue Halpern
ISBN-10: 0307363805
ISBN-13: 9780307363800
Each autumn, the monarch butterflies east of the Rockies migrate from as some distance north as Canada to Mexico. reminiscence isn't really their advisor — not anyone butterfly makes the around journey — yet every year in some way locate their solution to an analogous fifty acres of woodland at the excessive slopes of Mexico’s Neovolcanic Mountains, after which make the go back journey within the spring.
In Four Wings and a Prayer, Sue Halpern units off on an event to delve into the secrets and techniques at the back of this awesome phenomenon. She visits scientists and butterfly fans around the state, supplying a keenly saw portrait of the monarchs’ migration and of the folks for whom they've got develop into an excellent obsession. Combining technological know-how, memoir, and go back and forth writing, Four Wings and a Prayer is an soaking up travelogue and a desirable meditation on a profound secret of the wildlife.
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Best of all, however, is the gift of immaturity itself, which has enabled us to retain in our best, most human, moments the capacity for play. In puppyhood animals show a capacity for play, when they are protected from the dreadful seriousness of the wilderness by the guardianship of parents; and practically all make 40 PRIMITIVE MYTHOLOGY a charming display of it again in courtship. However, in man—or perhaps we should say, rather, in the best of men, though indeed in the majority of women—the capacity is retained throughout life.
Man's capacity for play animates his urge to fashion images and organize forms in such a way as to create new stimuli for himself: sign stimuli, to which his nervous system may then react much in the way of an isomorph to its releaser. We have observed the case of the little girl, seized by her own creation of a witch. Let us consider, now, what can happen to a poet. The following statement, by the British poet and critic A. E. Housman, supplies the most satisfactory definition I know of a certain triggering principle that is effective in the poetic impact: Poetry seems to me more physical than intellectual.
The members of a pack defend their group territory against all other dogs. All dogs of an Eskimo settlement have an exact and detailed knowledge of the topography of the territories of other packs; they know where attacks from other packs must be feared. Immature dogs, however, do not defend the territory. Moreover, they often roam through the whole settlement, very often trespassing into other territories, where they are promptly chased. In spite of these frequent attacks, during which they may be severely treated, they do not learn the territories' topography and for the observer their stupidity in this respect is amazing.
Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly by Sue Halpern
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