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The Unphotographable: Georgia O’Keeffe on the Grandeur of Machu Picchu and Peru’s Otherworldly Mountains

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The Everlasting Wonder of Being: How a Cold Cosmos Kindles the Glow of Consciousness

How we went from quanta packages to the laughter of children on a summer afternoon.

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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.”

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Nick Cave on Songwriting, Truth, and the Mystery of the Unconscious

“Metaphor can create a merciful sense of distance from the cruel idea, or the unspeakable truth, and allow it to exist within us as a kind of poetic radiance, as a work of art.”

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How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older

“In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves.”

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A Chaos of Delight: Darwin on the Sublimity and Transcendence of Nature

“No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body.”

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The Unphotographable: Iris Murdoch’s Portal to Transcendence, from the Sea to the Stars

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The Unphotographable: Alaskan Paradise with Rockwell Kent

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Sappho and the Fevered Heart: Anne Carson on Jealousy

“…greener than grass I am and dead — or almost I seem to me.”

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The Unphotographable: Alpine Transcendence with Mary Shelley

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Search results for “beauty”

How we went from quanta packages to the laughter of children on a summer afternoon.

“When we pay attention to other animals, our own world expands and deepens.”

“Metaphor can create a merciful sense of distance from the cruel idea, or the unspeakable truth, and allow it to exist within us as a kind of poetic radiance, as a work of art.”

“In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves.”

“No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body.”

“…greener than grass I am and dead — or almost I seem to me.”

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