BENEATH

“VI

Now it is cold: where the snow was melting
the walk crackles with black ice beneath my careful steps;
and the snow is old and pitted,
here grey with ashes and there yellow with sand.”

Reznikoff, Charles, edited by Seamus Cooney. “Autobiography: New York.” The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975. Boston: David R. Godine, 2005. p. 185.

Catalog Record

WorldCat

“After long ages of growth in the darkness beneath the glaciers, through sunshine and storms, it seemed now to be ready and waiting for the elected artist, like yellow wheat for the reaper; and I could not help wishing that I might carry colors and brushes with me on my travels, and learn to paint.”

Muir, John. The Writings of John Muir: Sierra Edition. Vol. I. The Mountains of California. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. p. 58.

Catalog Record

Internet Archive

“These mighty agents of erosion, halting never through unnumbered centuries, crushed and ground the flinty lavas and granites beneath their crystal folds, wasting and building until in the fullness of time the Sierra was born again, brought to light nearly as we behold it to-day, with glaciers and snow-crushed pines at the top of the range, wheat-fields and orange-groves at the foot of it.”

Muir, John. The Writings of John Muir: Sierra Edition. Vol. I. The Mountains of California. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. p. 17.

Catalog Record

Internet Archive

“Miles of fragrant ceanothus and manzanita bushes bloom beneath them, and lily gardens and meadows, and damp, ferny glens in endless variety of fragrance and color, compelling the admiration of every observer.”

Muir, John. The Writings of John Muir: Sierra Edition. Vol. I. The Mountains of California. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. p. 8.

Catalog Record

Internet Archive

“But there are many ways in which the unhappiness beneath the happy consciousness may be turned into a source of strength and cohesion for the social order.”

Marcuse, Herbert. One-Dimensional Man. London: Routledge, 2002. p. 80.

Catalog Record

Routledge

“When we dig beneath the surface of our elders' surprise at the networks that – as we see it – weave our world, we discover the anthropological roots of that lack of understanding.”

Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern, trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993. p. 8.

Catalog Record

Harvard University Press

“The fundamental doctrine of American geology in the late 1940s was that the continents and ocean basins had been permanent features of the earth’s surface, almost since the beginning of geologic time. The crust of the earth beneath the sea was unimaginably old, and the continents had always been about where they are today, though they had probably grown in size over several billion years.”

Revelle, Roger. “The Past and Future of Ocean Drilling,” 1975 speech, p. 1-2. Roger Revelle Papers, MC 6A, Box 159, f3. 
Washington, D.C. : Joint Oceanographic Institutions Inc., [1978] / 
"Presented on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of scientific ocean drilling October 30, 1978, Washington, D.C."

“It is the fantastic elaboration of this ground plan, evolved by natural selection over countless generations, which makes it difficult for us, in our everyday life, to penetrate beneath the outward form and perceive the unity within.”

Crick, Francis. Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature. New York: Touchstone, 1982. p. 39.

Catalog Record