2020年2月2日 星期日

“The earth has music for those who listen”

“The Earth has Music for Those Who Listen”
by Dulac (1882-1953). Probably from his illustrations for the 1909 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
“Ah Love! could you and I with Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits–and then
Re-mold it nearer to the Heart’s Desire!”
~from “The Rubaiyat”

The earth has music for those who listen - National Geographic

Top Image: The skeleton of Liaoconodon, from Meng et al., 2011.
A note about the title: The line “The earth has music for those who listen” has often been attributed William Shakespeare, but this appears to be a mistake. How this line turned into a meme credited to him is unclear. Still, I thought it fitting for a post about fossils and the evolution of hearing.

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