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Undersea: Rachel Carson’s Lyrical and Revolutionary 1937 Masterpiece Inviting Humans to Explore Earth from the Perspective of Other Creatures
“Against this cosmic background the lifespan of a particular plant or animal appears, not as drama complete in itself, but only as a brief interlude in a panorama of endless change.”
The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: A Trailblazing Exploration of Consciousness, Memory, and How Our Sense of Self Arises
“This is the very essence of memory: its self-referential base, its self-consciousness, ever evolving and ever changing, intrinsically dynamic and subjective.”
H Is for Hawk: Helen Macdonald on Love, Loss, Time, and Our Improbable Allies in Healing
“The world is full of signs and wonders that come, and go, and if you are lucky you might be alive to see them.”
The Soul of an Octopus: How One of Earth’s Most Alien Creatures Illuminates the Wonders of Consciousness
“While stroking an octopus, it is easy to fall into reverie. To share such a moment of deep tranquility with another being, especially one as different from us as the octopus, is a humbling privilege… an uplink to universal consciousness.”
Dinosaurs of the Sky: Consummate 19th-Century Scottish Natural History Illustrations of Birds
From pigeons to parakeets, an uncommonly beautiful celebration of biodiversity.
Albert Camus on Consciousness and the Lacuna Between Truth and Meaning
“From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth. Consciousness illuminates it by paying attention to it.”
What Makes the Octopus and Its Consciousness So Extraordinary
A humbling inquiry into a tentacled intelligence so wonderfully different from our own.
Marilynne Robinson on the Humanities, the Limits of Neuroscience, and the Usefulness of the Soul as a Sensemaking Mechanism for Reality
“A great deal depends, perhaps our humanity depends, on our sensing and acknowledging that quality in our kind we call the soul.”
Consider the Octopus: A Little Boy’s Moving Case Against Eating Animals
Disarming wisdom from a tiny-bodied, huge-hearted human animal.
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