What do you make of Roger Tory Peterson’s meaning of life?
Even though I was brought up as a God-fearing Lutheran I was never satisfied with most people’s definition of the word ‘God.’ They cannot really define it or if they do, they seem to envision a humanistic being rather like us out there in the stratosphere somewhere. My own view is a holistic one in which life goes on but not in precisely the identical forms they were before they died. I prefer the term, ‘life force,’ because after we die there will be other people, other grasshoppers, other birds, other flowers, but all mixed up in a zillion ways and not in the same form as when we left this earth. The food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink are all composites of our ancestry. (Quoted from Roger Tory Peterson: A biography, by Douglas Carlson, University of Texas Press, 2007, 246.)
For a brief biography of Roger Tory Peterson, click here.
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