A metaphoric excavation of the thought of the shadowy Greek philosopher, Leukippus, founder of atomic theory, which forms the basis of our modern age. For Leukippus, humanness was still a part of nature, not standing in contradiction to or superior to the nonhuman world. Humanity lived by the ordinances that ruled all things; ethics was implicit. Law was nourished by natural law. Although removed from the modern conception of the physical sciences, he sought ideas capable of comprehending the world and the mind, of understanding the whole, as well as each individual. The author justifies his...

This work explores the amphibian world of human consciousness, where waking and dreaming are capable of animating and playing a private being or ambihuman others. Beyond the careful observation and considered presentation emerges a deep respect for nature and life. Where Rilke's poetry moves towards the stars, Caratheodory's moves deeper into the earth. Poetry is treated as an instrument of learning and research. These poems are like fingers probing the interconnectedness of beings in a pan ecology of the earth (poetry as a discipline of ecology). The poet grants existence and consciousness...

The best rejected] short stories on the virtual] planet These short stories have been collected from biologists, philosophers, mechanics, loggers, and others who rarely write fiction.

A celebration of life using metaphor to extend two selves to the larger selves of ecosystems and galaxies.

Laying down a phenomenological spiral to arrive at joy through the experiences of pain, openness and otherness. Some of these experiences can only be acquired by living in wild ecosystems and confronting wild plants and animals. Other experiences are shaped by wild encounters in modern industrial civilization.