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How to Be a Citizen of Earth: Learning from the Children of Palau
“I shall not take what is not given. I shall not harm what does not harm me. The only footprints I shall leave are those that will wash away.”
The Planter of Modern Life: How a Forgotten Visionary Pioneered Permaculture and Revolutionized Our Relationship with the Land
“Some day… there will come a reckoning. The country will discover… that no nation can exist or have any solidity which ignores the land. But it will cost the country dear.”
Cloud Chambers and Cosmic Rays: The Quest to Unravel One of the Most Dazzling Mysteries of the Universe
Silk, vapor, and the substance of life.
Chance, Choice, and the Avocado: The Strange Evolutionary and Creative History of Earth’s Most Nutritious Fruit
How a confused romancer that survived the Ice Age became a tropical sensation and took over the world.
A Penguin’s Antidote to Abandonment
How to sail in the icy sea of uncertainty without sinking.
The Great Naturalist John Burroughs on the Art of Noticing and What Artists Can Learn from Naturalists
“We think we have looked at a thing sharply until we are asked for its specific features.”
Seashells and the Spiral of Wonder at the Intersection of Art and Science
“Seashells were money before coin, jewelry before gems, art before canvas… To stare into the spiral top of a whelk or cone shell is to see the swirl of the Milky Way.”
The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love
“Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment.”
Games People Play: The Revolutionary 1964 Model of Human Relationships That Changed How We (Mis)Understand Ourselves and Each Other
“Because there is so little opportunity for intimacy in daily life, and because some forms of intimacy (especially if intense) are psychologically impossible for most people, the bulk of the time in serious social life is taken up with playing games.”
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