Lekcja biologii
Biology Lesson

Summary/Abstract: From a certain distance in time it is possible to see even clearer the importance Miłosz attached (in life and writings) to A View of San Francisco Bay (1969), in which he formulated for the first time with such force theses that were to recur upon numerous occasions in his later essays and poetry. An essential fragment of the intellectual construction outlined in A View of San Francisco Bay is the concept of Nature. The author reconstructed the basic contexts in which it appeared in the book and subsequently proposed a “presentistic” approach to the book by inserting the conception of Nature, expounded therein, into the contexts of contemporary thought. His reflections are restricted to several motifs closely linked with the theses about Nature earlier listed in A View: Nature and beauty, human/animal relations, and the theory of evolution.

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