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Article: CHET RAYMO'S SCIENTIFIC PSALTERY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 29, 1988
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HONEY FROM STONE. A Naturalist's Search for God, by Chet
Raymo, with linocuts by Bob O'Cathail. Dodd, Mead. 188 pp.
$16.95.
Chet Raymo, bless him, is one of those enchanting polymaths who
are in love with the the universe and use the language of science
to make up the words for their love songs. So struck is he by the
animated magnificence of clouds, hills, oceans, islands and the
light in the sky that he makes geology, physics and astronomy into
life sciences and then sings in the language of these life sciences
to life itself.
"Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag," he declares to
us. And he proves it by the crystals in the snowflakes on his
sleeve, by the ...