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Come back to this page each day to read another entry from Cathie Katz's beautifully illustrated journal, "Nature a Day at a Time."
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The same life force that grows an oak from an acorn, a mountain from the earth's molten core, a stream from the spring's thaw, a child from an egg and sperm, an idea from the mind of a human being is present in all things, all thoughts and all experiences. There is no place where God is not. Dr. Joan Borysenko in A Pocketful of Miracles Oak leaves contain tannic acid which discourages bacteria. The leaves then are slow to disintegrate when they fall. Eventually the tannic acid becomes part of the soil, ultimately helping future oak seeds to sprout. Just like the seed of an idea, some acorns sprout, some don't. But none will grow if they're pulled up just to check on their progress.
No scientist, nor observant parent, really believes we are born as completely blank slates to be filled in by our upbringing. The key is the interplay between the hardware we are born with and the software we add. It's not nature or nurture, it's nature and nurture. In fact, it's part of our nature to respond to nurture.Dr. Dean Hamer in Living with Our Genes |
Cathie Katz, the author of several books on natural history, also co-founded The Drifting Seed, an international newsletter about rain forest drift seeds. In her engaging Nature a Day at a Time, published by Sierra Club Books and Random House, Katz interweaves fascinating facts about familiar creatures, pen-and-ink drawings and quotations.
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