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Trailblazing Writer and Feminist Margaret Fuller on the Social Value of Intellectual Labor and Why Artists Ought to Be Paid
“The circulating medium… is abused like all good things, but without it you would not have had your Horace and Virgil.”
How to Save a World: Rachel Carson’s Advice to Posterity
“Mankind is challenged, as it has never been challenged before, to prove its maturity and its mastery — not of nature, but of itself.”
How to Stay Sane as an Artist: Soul-Salving Advice from Poets W.S. Merwin and John Berryman
Tonic for living with that sacred, terrifying uncertainty with which all creative work enters the world.
The Great Naturalist John Burroughs on Art, the Courage to Defy Convention, and the Measure of a Visionary
“The new man makes room for himself, and if he be of the first order he largely makes the taste by which he is appreciated, and the rules of art by which he is to be judged.”
Stunning 19th-Century French Natural History Illustrations of Beetles
The exoskeletal strangeness and splendor of creatures almost entirely unlike us yet thoroughly of this shared world.
Toni Morrison on the Power of Art and the Writer’s Singular Service to Humanity
“Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it from even the most tragic of circumstances. Art reminds us that we belong here. And if we serve, we last.”
The Six Steps to Cosmic Consciousness: A Pioneering Theory of Transcendence by the 19th-Century Psychiatrist and Adventurer Maurice Bucke
We are not “patches of life scattered through an infinite sea of non-living substance” but “specks of relative death in an infinite ocean of life.”
Salvation by Words: Iris Murdoch on Language as a Vehicle of Truth and Art as a Force of Resistance to Tyranny
“Tyrants always fear art because tyrants want to mystify while art tends to clarify. The good artist is a vehicle of truth.”
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.”
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