Andrew Scott
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The Inspired Life of Richard St Barbe Baker
This article is excerpted from an unpublished manuscript, 'Re-discovering who we are'. The material appearing in this excerpt was largely researched from materials including the biography of St Barbe Baker by Paul Hanley. The two images and a detailed reference to the first 'Dance of the Trees' are from a blog appearing on the International Tree Foundation website.
By Andrew Scott11 months ago in Earth
Investigating The Truth - While Avoiding Wishful Thinking
This is a reproduction (of the text, not images) of the original article appearing on the "Baha'i Teachings" website, with some minor formatting changes. The author acknowledges his debt of gratitude to David Langness and his editorial staff for improvements made to the original copy.
By Andrew Scott12 months ago in Futurism
Is humanity doomed?
A topic was posted recently on a well known social media site. The site itself shall remain anonymous, as shall the user, or any other identifying information, but the title was singular and eye-catching: "It really seems like humanity is doomed."
By Andrew Scottabout a year ago in Earth
A Bird in a Cage
I think perhaps I must be irredeemably dull, or else have been at the mercy of misfortune. Only in the past few days did I encounter for the first time the utterly heartfelt and ravishlingly luminous stanzas that are Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale".
By Andrew Scottabout a year ago in Poets
The Search for Alien Salvation
This short article asks questions, but does not claim to provide answers. According to conventional wisdom, humanity is incorrigibly selfish, quarrelsome, short-sighted and greedy. Left to our own devices, there is only one outcome: total destruction and extinction, if not of all human life, then certainly civilisation as we know it.
By Andrew Scottabout a year ago in Futurism