Wetland Scientist an Early Eiseley Follower

Bill Lattrell pens WildRamblings, "a New England Ecologist's Writings . . ." Latrell recently confided with readers that Eiseley had been a major influence in his late teenage years. Lattrell read The Immense Journey before his career began, then read Eisley's other works, and was greatly moved by them. But when Eiseley's All the Strange Hours was released, Lattrell was saddened to find that Eiseley had, in Lattrell's understanding of the book, decided that "there was no hope for the human race, that we would never understand our place in the natural world . . ."

Lattrell says he revived his hope for the species through the writings of James Lovelock and later Janine Benyus, all the while conceding that neither had the literary prowess that Eiseley possessed.