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Topics of interest to Seton explored by the author of this site
Seton Palace, East Lothian, Scotland
Seton Palace and the Forth Estuary by Alexander Keirincx. Image courtesy of the National Galleries of Scotland. Seton Palace, located east of Edinburgh, Scotland, was one of the most important buildings of its kind in the seventeenth century. Two Artists, One View...
Seton After the Battle of Langside Part VI
George, Fifth Lord Seton and his family by Frans Pourbus the Elder. Image courtesy of the National Museums of Scotland Ernest Thompson Seton’s ancestor George Seton, surrounded by his family sat for a portrait in 1572. George Seton had survived the Battle of Langside...
Monarch of the Glen
Art Historian with Monarch painting Monarch of the Glen, the famous painting of a Red Deer by Edward Landseer, influenced the art of Ernest Thompson Seton. One of the great treasures of Scotland’s National Galleries in the capital of Edinburgh, in person, the portrait...
The Last Wolf in Scotland
Wolf-less mountain in Scotland Ernest Thompson Seton wrote about his connection to Clan Cameron and to the name Seton. Seton-Thompson v. Thompson Seton He was so enamored of his Seton heritage that as a teenager he changed his last name from Thompson to Seton,...
The Serviceberry
Book cover, The Serviceberry (John Burgoyne, illustrator) I am always on the search for contemporary books addressing themes covered by Seton. For him, the realm of Nature is not only biological but also existing as a moral universe. Another facet of Nature is...
Ernest Thompson Seton Dies
Seton and the Wolf, undated Ernest Thompson Seton died midmorning Wednesday October 23, 1946, in his bedroom on the main floor of Seton Castle, Santa Fe, New Mexico. His final journal entries ended somewhat earlier. Even though the event happened seventy-nine years...
Jane Goodall
Our hero. Click here for more on Jane's life and work.
A Coyote And A Mustang
Cute Coyote by Ernest Thompson Seton Earlier this month I posted a Seton essay about the metaphoric Coyote as the Spirit of the West. His admiration for the species is evident from the concluding paragraphs of “Tito, The Story of the Coyote that Learned How.” In this...
Models of Morality in Nature
The Natural History of the Ten Commandments by Ernest Thompson Seton must be his most unusual book. While he had significant grounding in fundamentalist—Calvinist bible study, he had long since given up on organized Christianity. Published in 1907 (the same year as...
Happy 164 Seton
Best Wishes for 1919 by Ernest Thompson Seton Several years ago, I mentioned five categories of major life accomplishments of Ernest Thompson Seton. His consciousness raising about the consciousness of animals would have been an extraordinary achievement even had...
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