To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking succession of structural types replacing one another, but as an ascension of inner sap spreading out in a forest of consolidated instincts. Right at its base, the living world is constituted by conscious clothes in flesh and bone.


The Phenomenon of Man (ed. Lulu Press, Inc, 2015) - ISBN: 9781329699519

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking ...

To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking ...

To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking ...

To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking ...