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| Walden Pond in November www.trekearth.com |
Drifting for a week down the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
I trailed my fingers in Civil Disobedience,
lingered a month on the banks of Walden Pond
just long enough to transcend
from awkward adolescent into endless possibilities.
I happened upon Patterson and Fouts,
fingers dancing into primate thinking,
and my enchantment with
Words, Mind and Spirit
coalesced.
My heroes slept under star-strewn skies,
witnesses
of Nature and Life,
Tools and Language,
Thought and Reason
diligently uncovering commonalities.
Observers
who took me from the pond’s edge
Through Gombe
Until I found my place in the Universe.
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| Roger Fouts www.misitprodictions. com |
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| Jane Goodall www.ngm.nationalgeographic.com |
Copyright Elizabeth Abrams Chapman 2014
