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The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind
The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind

“Every thought that has ever passed through your brain was made possible by plants.”

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The Messiah in the Mountain: Darwin on Wonder and the Spirituality of Nature
The Messiah in the Mountain: Darwin on Wonder and the Spirituality of Nature

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John Gardner on the Key to Self-Renewal Across Life and the Art of Making Rather Than Finding Meaning
John Gardner on the Key to Self-Renewal Across Life and the Art of Making Rather Than Finding Meaning

“The potentialities you develop to the full come as the result of an interplay between you and life’s challenges.”

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What It’s Like to Be a Falcon: The Peregrine as a Portal to a Way of Seeing and a State of Being
What It’s Like to Be a Falcon: The Peregrine as a Portal to a Way of Seeing and a State of Being

“You cannot know what freedom means till you have seen a peregrine loosed into the warm spring sky to roam at will through all the far provinces of light.”

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Nature’s Oldest Mandolin: The Poetic Science of How Cicadas Sing
Nature’s Oldest Mandolin: The Poetic Science of How Cicadas Sing

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No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life
No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life

“We must live it, now, a day at a time and be very careful not to hurt each other.”

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On Giving Up: Adam Phillips on Knowing What You Want, the Art of Self-Revision, and the Courage to Change Your Mind
On Giving Up: Adam Phillips on Knowing What You Want, the Art of Self-Revision, and the Courage to Change Your Mind

“Not being able to give up is not to be able to allow for loss, for vulnerability; not to be able to allow for the passing of time, and the revisions it brings.”

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Nothing: The Illustrated Story of How John Cage Revolutionized Music and the Art of Listening Through Silence
Nothing: The Illustrated Story of How John Cage Revolutionized Music and the Art of Listening Through Silence

“We make our lives by what we love.”

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Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say: A Tender Painted Lexicon of Consolation and Connection
Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say: A Tender Painted Lexicon of Consolation and Connection

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The Universe in Verse Book
The Universe in Verse Book

“We need science to help us meet reality on its own terms, and we need poetry to help us broaden and deepen the terms on which we meet ourselves and each other. At the crossing point of the two we may find a way of clarifying our experience and of sanctifying it.”

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