>
> There is an old story I once heard, perhaps you have too.
>
> A man walks along the beach. The ocean tide has washed thousands of
> starfish up on the beach where they will die in the hot sun. Another
> man is combing the beach and picking up starfish one by one and thowing
> them back in the ocean. The first man approaches the man trying to save
> the starfish and says "Sir, you can't possibly hope to save all these
> starfish". The other man bends over, picks up a starfish, throws it in
> the ocean and says "No, but I just saved that one".
It's called The Star Thrower, by Loren Eiseley, in his
book The Unexpected Universe. http://lccn.loc.gov/84022559
He also has a probably related title
http://lccn.loc.gov/67063808 which I have not seen but will
almost certainly want to own.
Eiseley is admired by readers as disparate as WH Auden,
Theodosius Dobzhansky, and Ray Bradbury; at least one reviewer
puts him in a class with Ralph Waldo Emerson -- but you may find
that that flatters Emerson.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
What do they know of country, who only country know?
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