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Raymo (An Intimate Look at the Night Sky), a physicist at Stonehill College, agrees with Walt Whitman that "there is a sense in which the least thing contains the all." The least things in Raymo's universe occur on a one-mile path he has walked every day for 37 years between his home and his office in North Easton, Mass. Along this path that he knows so well, he writes, "every pebble and wildflower has a story to tell"-geological stories, environmental stories, human stories. Raymo uses each ecologically distinct portion of his path as a starting point for one of those tales. He is at his best when he relates the tale of the path itself, how it was constructed by the great landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted as part of an estate for the great-grandson of shovel magnate Oliver Ames. The beginning of the path at the end of a suburban street provides the opportunity to discuss the origin of the village of North Easton at the close of the 18th century: the small Queset Brook supplying the power needed to run the factory that would dominate the village for a century and a half. As the path meanders from woods to open fields, from gardens to water meadow, Raymo discusses ecological relationships, the nature of DNA, basic geology and contemporary environmental concerns. Although always interesting , Raymo's stories are less compelling and more superficial the further afield he goes. But this slim, lovingly written volume helps readers become more observant of the natural portions of their world. 8 b&w illus. not seen by PW.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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"For thirty-seven years I have walked the same path back and forth each day from my home in the village of North Easton, Massachusetts, to my place of work, Stonehill College. The path takes me along a street of century-old houses, through woods and fields, across a stream, along a water meadow, and through an old orchard and community gardens." Raymo, professor emeritus of physics and astronomy at Stonehill College and a science writer at the Boston Globe, walks with an observant eye and a ruminative mind. The stream, which in the 19th century powered the machines of the Ames Shovel Company, leads him into a discussion of gravity. Similarly prompted by what he sees, Raymo discusses engagingly such topics as photosynthesis, geology and evolution. The path so intimately familiar to him runs for barely more than a mile, "but the territory it traverses is as big as the universe."
Raymo (An Intimate Look at the Night Sky), a physicist at Stonehill College, agrees with Walt Whitman that "there is a sense in which the least thing contains the all." The least things in Raymo's universe occur on a one-mile path he has walked every day for 37 years between his home and his office in North Easton, Mass. Along this path that he knows so well, he writes, "every pebble and wildflower has a story to tell"-geological stories, environmental stories, human stories. Raymo uses each ecologically distinct portion of his path as a starting point for one of those tales. He is at his best when he relates the tale of the path itself, how it was constructed by the great landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted as part of an estate for the great-grandson of shovel magnate Oliver Ames. The beginning of the path at the end of a suburban street provides the opportunity to discuss the origin of the village of North Easton at the close of the 18th century: the small Queset Brook supplying the power needed to run the factory that would dominate the village for a century and a half. As the path meanders from woods to open fields, from gardens to water meadow, Raymo discusses ecological relationships, the nature of DNA, basic geology and contemporary environmental concerns. Although always interesting , Raymo's stories are less compelling and more superficial the further afield he goes. But this slim, lovingly written volume helps readers become more observant of the natural portions of their world. 8 b&w illus. not seen by PW.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Scientific American
"For thirty-seven years I have walked the same path back and forth each day from my home in the village of North Easton, Massachusetts, to my place of work, Stonehill College. The path takes me along a street of century-old houses, through woods and fields, across a stream, along a water meadow, and through an old orchard and community gardens." Raymo, professor emeritus of physics and astronomy at Stonehill College and a science writer at the Boston Globe, walks with an observant eye and a ruminative mind. The stream, which in the 19th century powered the machines of the Ames Shovel Company, leads him into a discussion of gravity. Similarly prompted by what he sees, Raymo discusses engagingly such topics as photosynthesis, geology and evolution. The path so intimately familiar to him runs for barely more than a mile, "but the territory it traverses is as big as the universe."
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FOR THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS I have walked the same path back and forth each day from my home in the village of North Easton, Massachusetts, to my place of work, Stonehill College. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shovel shops, bee boy, bluebird boxes, water meadow, wood anemone, spring peepers, plank bridge Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sheep Pasture, North Easton, New England, Queset Brook, Oliver Ames, Frederick Law Olmsted, Bobbsey Twins, Lind Street, New York, North America, Natural Resources Trust, United States, Charles Eliot, Industrial Revolution, Native Americans, New Hampshire, New World, Arnold Arboretum, Charles Sprague Sargent, Ice Age, John Swift, Matilda Golden, Stonehill College, Central Park, Main Street New!
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FOR THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS I have walked the same path back and forth each day from my home in the village of North Easton, Massachusetts, to my place of work, Stonehill College. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shovel shops, bee boy, bluebird boxes, water meadow, wood anemone, spring peepers, plank bridge Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sheep Pasture, North Easton, New England, Queset Brook, Oliver Ames, Frederick Law Olmsted, Bobbsey Twins, Lind Street, New York, North America, Natural Resources Trust, United States, Charles Eliot, Industrial Revolution, Native Americans, New Hampshire, New World, Arnold Arboretum, Charles Sprague Sargent, Ice Age, John Swift, Matilda Golden, Stonehill College, Central Park, Main Street New!
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- Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth in Urban America by Peter J. Schmitt on 4 pages
- HOW TO KNOW WILDFLOWERS PA by William Star Dana on 4 pages
- Natural History of Selbourne (Wordsworth Classics) by Gilbert White on page 111, page 114, and Back Matter
- Silva of North America by Charles Sargent on page 36, page 37, and page 39
- The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson on page 133, and Back Matter
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- Rambling Around Granville: Thinking Locally by William Nichols on page 307, and Back Matter
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