Search results for “Thoreau”
Philosopher Martin Buber on How Learning to Look at Trees Teaches Us to See Each Other More Clearly
“Let no attempt be made to sap the strength from the meaning of the relation: relation is mutual.”
Walking the City with Jane: An Illustrated Celebration of Jane Jacobs and Her Legacy of Livable Cities
How a woman of great courage and great humanity changed the way we build cities, taught communities to stand up for themselves, and inspired generations to look up.
Nature and the Serious Work of Joy
“There can be occasions when we suddenly and involuntarily find ourselves loving the natural world with a startling intensity, in a burst of emotion which we may not fully understand…”
The Trailblazing 18th-Century Woman of Letters Germaine de Staël on Ambition and the Crucial Difference Between Ego and Genius
“True glory cannot be obtained by relative celebrity.”
Trailblazing Scottish Mountaineer and Poet Nan Shepherd on the Transcendent Rewards of Walking and What Makes for an Ideal Walking Companion
“The body is not made negligible, but paramount. Flesh is not annihilated but fulfilled. One is not bodiless, but essential body.”
Oliver Sacks on Nature’s Beauty as a Gateway into Deep Time and a Lens on the Interconnectedness of the Universe
“The sense of deep time brings a deep peace with it, a detachment from the timescale, the urgencies, of daily life… a profound sense of being at home, a sort of companionship with the earth.”
Theodore Roosevelt on the Two Pillars of Good Citizenship and the Most Dangerous Enemy of Democracy
“In a republic, to be successful we must learn to combine intensity of conviction with a broad tolerance of difference of conviction.”
Be Still, Life: A Songlike Illustrated Invitation to Living with Presence
“Be still, life, be still at the break of dawn, and you’ll feel the sun’s light when you hear the morning’s song.”
Two Hundred Years of Blue
Cerulean splendor from Goethe, Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Rachel Carson, Toni Morrison, and other literary masters.
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