Posted on September 19 2010
“You can find the secret of life, he assured, in the mysterious colors and designs on a trout’s back. For it’s there you see that, ‘buried in those endless lines of code that are DNA sequences, there is a hidden instinct for creativity and beauty. Always yearning to come out, we catch glimpses of it in all our living things, but it is on the back of trout that this instinct was finally manifest in all its glory.'”
From the Alaska blog of Mason McLeod, the 26-year-old national park ranger whose float plane disappeared on August 21, as quoted by Matt Soergel.