Word: grassroots
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...sensation-like breathing in and out-this contracting and expanding viewpoint. The six-foot ladybug, I perceived, would live in a world where grassblades would be as wide as a highway and would tower hundreds of feet in the air. Crickets twenty-four feet long would crawl through the grassroot jungles. Moths, with wings stretching more than 100 feet from tip to tip, would soar through the air at dusk. Bushes would have the appearance of frowning cliffs; trees of invincible mountains. So the world must appear to a ladybug as it peers nearsightedly about...
Edwin May Teale did a lot more, however, than sprawl on his belly meditating, more than setting down his meditations on paper. He went about making his imaginings real for other men and last week published a book, Grassroot Jungles* the fruit of six years' study and expert photography of what...