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Starlings and the Magic of Murmurations: A Stunning Watercolor Celebration of One of Earth’s Living Wonders
Starlings and the Magic of Murmurations: A Stunning Watercolor Celebration of One of Earth’s Living Wonders

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The Rigor of Angels: Human Nature and the Nature of Reality
The Rigor of Angels: Human Nature and the Nature of Reality

“What we are striving for lies inside us; we find ourselves in the world and the world in ourselves.”

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Mars and Our Search for Meaning: A Planetary Scientist’s Love Letter to Life
Mars and Our Search for Meaning: A Planetary Scientist’s Love Letter to Life

“It is the search for infinity, the search for evidence that our capacious universe might hold life elsewhere, in a different place or at a different time or in a different form.”

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The Living Wonder of Leafcutter Ants, in Mesmerizing Stop Motion
The Living Wonder of Leafcutter Ants, in Mesmerizing Stop Motion

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Kate Sessions and the Devotion to Delight: The Forgotten Woman Who Covered California with Trees and Flowers
Kate Sessions and the Devotion to Delight: The Forgotten Woman Who Covered California with Trees and Flowers

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To Be a Person: Jane Hirshfield’s Playful and Poignant Poem About Bearing Our Human Condition
To Be a Person: Jane Hirshfield’s Playful and Poignant Poem About Bearing Our Human Condition

“To be a person may be possible then, after all.”

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Ursula K. Le Guin on Change, Menopause as Rebirth, and the Civilizational Value of Elders
Ursula K. Le Guin on Change, Menopause as Rebirth, and the Civilizational Value of Elders

“Into the space ship, Granny.”

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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating: An Uncommon Meditation on Presence and the Aperture of Wonder
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating: An Uncommon Meditation on Presence and the Aperture of Wonder

“Survival often depends on a specific focus: a relationship, a belief, or a hope balanced on the edge of possibility.”

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Milan Kundera on the Power of Coincidences and the Musicality of How Chance Composes Our Lives
Milan Kundera on the Power of Coincidences and the Musicality of How Chance Composes Our Lives

“Human lives… are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence… into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of the individual’s life.”

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The Poetic Science of the Ghost Pipe: Emily Dickinson and the Secret of Earth’s Most Supernatural Flower
The Poetic Science of the Ghost Pipe: Emily Dickinson and the Secret of Earth’s Most Supernatural Flower

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”

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