The Organic Planet


Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner

If I spoke to Rodman in those terms, saying that my grandparents’ lives seem to me organic and ours what? hydroponic? he would ask in derision what I meant. Define my terms. How do you measure the organic residue of a man or a generation? This is all metaphor. If you can’t measure it, it doesn’t exist


Tags: generations, human-life, immeasurability, organic

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