We are fitted to our environment through eons of adaptive trials and selection. Everything we are is shaped by our world (and in the past 10,000 years by our effects on ourselves and the world—especially through war), there is no separate us and “It”; except when we behave as indifferent spectators or rapacious conquerors. I do believe in evolutionary biology and psychology, and the profound revelations that these approaches have to tell us about man as an animal in the world—¡It’s sometimes rather scary; and, often rather humbling!

The patterns that we see in nature are inherently patterns that we have evolved to see—they are imbedded in our deepest inspirations and aspirations. To see nature is to see our selves.

The poems are in no particular order. I hope you enjoy them.