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In Search of the Canary Tree: What a Disappearing Ancient Forest Can Teach Us About Resilience and Grace in a Changing World
“There’s simply no imaginable tomorrow — no modeled future scenario, no amount or shade of red — that could ever possibly nullify the need for unwavering care and thoughtful action today.”
Favorite Books of 2018
The anatomy of feeling, the science of psychedelics, Ursula K. Le Guin’s final poetry collection, arresting essays by Zadie Smith, Rebecca Solnit, Anne Lamott, and Audre Lorde, a physicist’s lyrical meditation on science and spirituality, and more.
Elizabeth Gilbert Reads “The Early Hours” by Adam Zagajewski
An ode to the unsuspected gifts from the muse of sluggishness.
Two Hundred Years of Blue
Cerulean splendor from Goethe, Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Rachel Carson, Toni Morrison, and other literary masters.
The Living Mountain: Pioneering Scottish Mountaineer and Poet Nan Shepherd’s Forgotten Masterpiece About Our Relationship with Nature
“Place and a mind may interpenetrate till the nature of both is altered.”
Hermann Hesse on Solitude, the Value of Hardship, the Courage to Be Yourself, and How to Find Your Destiny
“Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny.”
Incubation, Ideation, and the Art of Editing: Beethoven on Creativity
“I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time, sometimes a very long time, before I set them down.”
An Illustrated Meditation on the Many Meanings and Manifestation of Love
“The man in rags outside the subway station plays love notes that lift into the sky like tiny beacons of light.”
Alan Lightman on the Longing for Absolutes in a Relative World and What Gives Lasting Meaning to Our Lives
“We are idealists and we are realists. We are dreamers and we are builders. We are experiencers and we are experimenters. We long for certainties, yet we ourselves are full of the ambiguities of the Mona Lisa and the I Ching. We ourselves are a part of the yin-yang of the world.”
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