Search results for “Blue”
A Different Solitude: Pioneering Aviator Beryl Markham on What She Learned About Life in the Bottomless Night
“I learned what every dreaming child needs to know — that no horizon is so far that you cannot get above it or beyond it.”
The Enigma of the Eel: The Elusive Science of Earth’s Most Mysterious Creature
“Science has come up against many mysteries, but few have proven as intractable and difficult to solve as the eel.”
How Money Was Born: The Small Seashell and the Fierce Maldivian Queen That Made the Modern World
How humanity turned another species into its first specie.
The Eternal Lyric of Love and Loss: “Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Little-Known Poems for the Tragic Love of Her Life
“One who has dared to be gloriously good and gloriously bad in one life. No Limbo for her. Rather let life itself grow living monuments out of trees and living words so that death can never take from our half-lives this radiant living that was lived among us.”
Psychedelic Dinosaurs, Four-Dimensional Hummingbirds, and How We Got Our Vision: Color, Consciousness, and the Dazzling Universe of Tetrachromacy
“When we pay attention to other animals, our own world expands and deepens.”
Fluid Becoming Solid Becoming Wonder: Artist Meghann Riepenhoff’s Otherworldly Cyanotype Prints of Ice Formation
A fluid serenade to this blue world, with a side of Rebecca Solnit.
Astronomy as Existential Calibration: A Poetic Manifesto for Science from Two Centuries Before the Golden Age of Space Telescopes
“Astronomy has enlarged the sphere of our conceptions, and opened to us a universe without bounds, where the human Imagination is lost.”
How to Live with Loneliness: A Tender Illustrated Parable About Feeling Alien and the Redemptive Power of Love
For all the hopeful creatures.
Henry Miller on the Secret to Growth, in Art and in Life
“The reality is always there, and it is preceded by vision. And if one keeps looking steadily the vision crystallizes into fact or deed. There is no escaping it. It doesn’t matter what route one travels.”
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