Search results for “emily dickinson”
The Soul, the Universe, and the Vastness of Music: Composer Caroline Shaw Brings Whitman and Tennyson to Life in the Spirit of the Golden Record
“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”
What We Keep in Loss: William Blake’s Stirring Letter to a Bereaved Father
“Our deceased friends are more really with us than when they were apparent to our mortal part.”
Rebecca Solnit on Writing, Gardening, and the Life of the Mind
“As a writer, you withdraw and disconnect yourself from the world in order to connect to it in the far-reaching way that is other people elsewhere reading the words that came together in this contemplative state.”
The Solace of Open Spaces
“There is nothing in nature that can’t be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration… Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.”
The Cello and the Nightingales: Beatrice Harrison and How the World’s First Fake News United Humanity in Our First Collective Empathy for Nature
An improbable celebration of the three most interesting things in life, the things that make it worth living: nature, human nature, and their cross-pollination in music.
Carrots and the Roots of Kindness, from Leo and Sophia Tolstoy to Ross Gay
A lovely reminder that “kindness and kin have the same mother.”
The Story of the Stunning Victorian Algae Herbarium and the Eccentric Balloonist Who Awakened the Terrestrial Imagination to the Enchanted Forest of the Sea
The labor of love that illuminated the wonders of the “unfathomable abyss, too wide, too deep, too vast for perfect exploration by human eye, or intellectual vision.”
The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Chesterton on How to Dig for the “Submerged Sunrise of Wonder”
Recovering the “forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence” alive in the back of our modernity-deadened minds.
The Power of the Bittersweet: Susan Cain on Longing as the Fulcrum of Creativity
In search of the most transcendent solution to “the problem of being alive in a deeply flawed yet stubbornly beautiful world.”
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