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Tree Islands and Networked Resilience: Biomimicry Pioneer Janine Benyus on the Power of Reciprocity in Nature and Our Human Future
“The more stressful the environment, the more likely you are to see plants working together to ensure mutual survival.”
Whom We Love and Who We Are: José Ortega y Gasset on Love, Attention, and the Invisible Architecture of Our Being
“Love is an impulse which springs from the most profound depths of our beings, and upon reaching the visible surface of life carries with it an alluvium of shells and seaweed from the inner abyss.”
The Mirror of Enigmas: Chance, the Universe, and the Fragile Loveliness of Knowing Who We Are
“There is no human being on earth capable of declaring with certitude who he is.”
The Spirituality of Science and the Wonder of the Wilderness: Ornithologist and Wildlife Ecologist J. Drew Lanham on Nature as Worship
“As I wander into the predawn dark of an autumn wood, I feel the presence of things beyond flesh, bone, and blood. My being expands to fit the limitlessness of the wild world.”
Seeking an Aurora: A Wondrous Illustrated Celebration of Earth’s Most Otherworldly Spectacle of Light and Color
Transcendence and tenderness in the lacuna of awe between the creaturely and the cosmic.
Rilke on the Relationship Between Solitude, Love, Sex, and Creativity
“There is only one solitude, and it is large and not easy to bear… People are drawn to the easy and to the easiest side of the easy. But it is clear that we must hold ourselves to the difficult.”
Darling Baby: Artist Maira Kalman’s Painted Serenade to Attention, Aliveness, and the Vibrancy of Seeing the World with Newborn Eyes
“You will look at everything. And everything is really quite beautiful. Quite.”
Thoreau on Nature and Human Nature, the Tonic of Wildness, and the Value of the Unexplored
“At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable.”
The Tree in Me: A Tender Painted Poem About Growing Our Capacity for Joy, Strength, and Love
What trees can teach us about more closely and loving ourselves, each other, and the world more deeply.
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