He attended Columbia University graduate school from 1950 to 1951. In 1950, he graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University. Peter Farb was a freelance writer in the areas of the natural and human sciences for many years, authoring many acclaimed books, incl Peter Farb (1929 - 1980) was an American author, anthropologist, linguist, environmentalist, biologist, and spokesman for conservation. Peter Farb (1929 - 1980) was an American author, anthropologist, linguist, environmentalist, biologist, and spokesman for conservation. There is enough science contained in the pages to satisfying inquisitive minds, but Peter Farb's style make it all very interesting and assessable. A book for an appreciator of nature who is awed by our amazing earth. It is a field guide of soil and the small animals that live within its realm. Nonetheless this book is a treasure, as other Peter Farb books are, and will find a permanent place on my bookshelf so as to be available to read again. There is enough science contained in the pages to satisfying inquisitive minds, but Peter Farb' I gave Living Earth four stars only because it was written in 1959, so, as a science book, it is dated. I gave Living Earth four stars only because it was written in 1959, so, as a science book, it is dated. I’ll concede that the pages dealing with microscopic bacteria were a bit beyond me, but I could appreciate their substance while learning to adore the symbiosis of earth and all its non-human inhabitants.more Peter Farb writes to an audience that needs to sympathize with the bumblebee, to reconsider the life cycles of the cicada, to remember the efficiency of the ant, to consider the vast intersections of efficiency that take place above and below the soil, fertilizing our existence. To an extent, Living Earth is a book written to the biological layman, someone like me, someone who hates, or doesn’t normally feel drawn to scientific topics. And yet the dirt, as this book so beautifully illustrates and describes, is the bedrock of all living things, the very place where all living things must one day return, funneling their end of life into the start of something else’s life. Get a little dirt on your shirt, on your skin, near your face, and you’ll almost surely rush to remove it, to clean it off, to wipe it into a sink, as far away as it can get as quickly as it can go, from the appearance, the illusion of something you’d prefer to be clean. And yet the dirt, as this book so beautifully illustrates and describes, is t Kick your foot through a pile of dirt and you’ll almost never take a second thought of its history, of its residents, of its relevance to life itself. Kick your foot through a pile of dirt and you’ll almost never take a second thought of its history, of its residents, of its relevance to life itself.
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