Search results for “beauty”
The Dark Wood of the Golden Birds: “Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Little-Known Philosophical Children’s Book About Love and Loss
“There had never been such a quiet day before. It was the quietest day in the world.”
Apple Meditation: John Burroughs on the Portable Philosophy of Humanity’s Favorite Fruit
“I think if I could subsist on you… I should never have an intemperate or ignoble thought, never he feverish or despondent… I should be cheerful, continent, equitable, sweet-blooded, long-lived, and should shed warmths and contentment around.”
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.
The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing
“…only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never visited.”
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.”
Full Tilt: Dervla Murphy’s Fierce and Poetic Account of Traversing the World on Two Wheels in the 1960s
A wonder-smitten reminder “that for all the horrible chaos of the contemporary political scene this world is full of kindness.”
Darwin Among the Machines: A Victorian Visionary’s Prophetic Admonition for Saving Ourselves from Enslavement by Artificial Intelligence
“We are ourselves creating our own successors… We are daily giving them… that self-regulating, self-acting power which will be to them what intellect has been to the human race. In the course of ages we shall find ourselves the inferior race.”
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.”
Loneliness and the Trinity of Creativity: Ada Lovelace, the Poles of the Mind, and the Source of Her Imaginative Powers
“Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds… may then with the fair white wings of Imagination hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.”
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