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Nikolai Vavilov and the Living Library of Resilience: The Story of the World’s First Seed Bank and the Tragic Hero of Science Who Set Out to End Humanity’s Suffering
The most moving story of self-sacrifice in the history of science.
Turning Loss and Loneliness into Wonder: How the Victorian Visionary Marianne North Revolutionized Art and Science with Her Botanical Paintings
A vibrant foray into “a perfect world of wonders” fueled by the bittersweet dimension of life.
Favorite Books of 2022
From Rumi to Blake to Nick Cave, by way of trees, hummingbirds, grief, and music.
The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self: How a Circle of Friends and Lovers United Nature and Human Nature
“Mind is invisible nature, while nature is visible mind.”
Nick Cave on Music, Mystery, and the Relationship Between Vulnerability and Freedom
“There is more going on than we can see or understand, and we need to find a way to lean into the mystery of things…. and recognise the evident value in doing that, and summon the courage it requires to not always shrink back into the known mind.”
User-Friendly Self-Deception: Philosopher Amélie Rorty on the Value of Our Delusions and the Antidote to the Self-Defeating Ones
“The question is: how can we sustain the illusions essential to ordinary life, without becoming self-damaging idiots?”
Nature and Transcendence: Emerson on How We Become Our Most Authentic Selves
“Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance.”
Montaigne on How to Succeed at Solitude and His Antidote to the Three Great Fears That Haunt Self-Knowledge
“There are ways of failing in solitude as in society.”
The Art of Receiving: John Steinbeck on the True Meaning of Gratitude
“It is so easy to give, so exquisitely rewarding. Receiving, on the other hand, if it be well done, requires a fine balance of self-knowledge and kindness.”
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