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“And then, amid the complexity and immobility of the rocks, there rise suddenly toward me ‘gusts of being,’ sudden and brief fits of awareness of the laborious unification of things, and it is no longer myself thinking, but the Earth acting. It is infinitely better.” The words come from the pen of the priest and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and this book, The Earth He Loved, tells the story of his life as a scientist and nature writer, following his path through forests, deserts, mountains, and caves, over oceans, under skies, even to a place where dragons came to die. (Humanity’s “missing link” was found there.) Walking it will awaken in you what it did in him: a sense of the planet as a whole, a sense of it evolving, a sense of Spirit rising from its core. The future of the earth lies in our hands, Teilhard writes. “How shall we decide?” Along with The Women He Knew and The Story He Told, The Earth He Loved forms A Teilhard Trilogy, a box set for eReaders.