Search results for “time travel”
Richard Powers on the Most Important Attitude You Can Take Toward Your Life and the World
“This fluke, single, huge, cross-indexed, thermodynamic experiment of a story that the world has been inventing to tell itself at bedtime is still in embryo. It’s not even the outline of a synopsis of notes toward a rough draft yet.”
The Optimism of the Oyster
From the rudiments of consciousness to the redemptions of conservation, with a side of existential reckoning.
The Vast Wonder of the World: Ernest Everett Just’s Trailblazing Life and Life-Illuminating Science, Illustrated
How a visionary turned the art of noticing into a leap of science.
The Woman Who Saved the Hawks
The story of the countercultural courage and persistence that shaped the modern ecological conscience.
Secrets from the Center of the World: Poet Joy Harjo’s Reflections on Science and Meaning in Response to an Astronomer’s Otherworldly Photographs of Earth
“I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity, the evolving past, and I know we will live forever, as dust or breath in the face of stars, in the shifting pattern of winds.”
An Illustrated Love Letter to Rivers
A painted landscape of fact and feeling along the flow of existence.
Matter, Music, and the Mind
“Sound is sea: pattern lapping pattern… Matter delights in music, and became Bach.”
Waking Up: David Whyte on the Power of Poetry and Silence as Portal to Presence
“The object in meditation and all of our contemplative disciplines is silence… in order for you to perceive something other than yourself… Poetry is the verbal art-form by which we can actually create silence.”
Rare Butterflies and Unsung Pollinators: Gorgeous 18th-Century Drawings by the First Artist and Naturalist to Depict the Wing-borne Beauty of the New World
The world’s first pictorial glimpse of the strange and wondrous creatures that give our planet its scent and color.
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