Reads tagged with “books”
David Byrne’s Illustrated History of the Possible Future
“The way things were, the way we made things, it turns out, none of it was inevitable — none of it is the way things have to be.”
Wonder, Hungry Wolves, and the Whimsy of Resilience: Arthur Rackham’s Haunting 1920 Illustrations for Irish Fairy Tales
A lyrical reminder that our terror and our tenderness spring from the same source.
Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All
“What an astonishing thing it is to find something. Children, who excel at it — chiefly because the world is still so new to them that they can’t help but notice it — understand this, and automatically delight in it.”
The Backdoor to Immortality: Marguerite Duras on What Makes Life Worth Living in the Face of Death
“Immortality is not a matter of more or less time.”
Nina Simone’s Gum and the Shimmering Strangeness of How Art Casts Its Transcendent Spell on Us
The metaphysical made physical in a symphonic celebration of imagination, collaboration, and the human heart.
The Fascinating Science of How We Think Not with the Brain But with the World
“By reaching beyond the brain… we are able to focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively — to entertain ideas that would be literally unthinkable by the brain alone.”
Cosmic Consolation for Human Hardship: The Great Naturalist John Burroughs on How to Live with Life
“One of the best things a man can bring into the world with him is a natural humility of spirit. About the next best thing he can bring, and they usually go together, is an appreciative spirit — a loving and susceptible heart.”
The Building Blocks of Peace: Pioneering X-Ray Crystallographer and Activist Kathleen Lonsdale’s Quiet Masterpiece on Moral Courage and Our Personal Power
“Those people who see clearly the necessity of changed thinking must themselves undertake the discipline of thinking in new ways and must persuade others to do so.”
The Fragile Species: A Forgotten Masterpiece of Perspective on How to Live with Ourselves and Each Other
“We need a better word than chance… To go all the way from a clone of archaebacteria, in just 3.7 billion years, to the B-Minor Mass and the Late Quartets, deserves a better technical term for the record than randomness.”
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