Reads tagged with “books”
Viktor Frankl on How Music, Nature, and Our Love for Each Other Succor Our Survival and Give Meaning to Our Lives
“Do we not know the feeling that overtakes us when we are in the presence of a particular person and, roughly translates as, The fact that this person exists in the world at all, this alone makes this world, and a life in it, meaningful.”
Two Friends: A Lovely Illustrated Celebration of Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony’s Entwined Paths as Pioneers of Freedom, Justice, and Equality
The story of two uncommonly courageous people who met in their twenties and spent the rest of their lives determined “to help each other, so one day all people could have rights.”
Mary Shelley on the Courage to Speak Up Against Injustice and the Power of Words in Revising the World
“Words have more power than any one can guess; it is by words that the world’s great fight, now in these civilized times, is carried on.”
Drawing on Walls: An Illustrated Homage to Keith Haring, His Irrepressible Art of Hope, and His Beautiful Bond with Children
“Children know something that most people have forgotten. Children possess a fascination with their everyday existence that is very special and would be very helpful to adults if they could learn to understand and respect it.”
Leibniz’s Blades of Grass: The Philosophy of Plants, Difference as the Wellspring of Identity, and How Diversity Gives Meaning to the World
“The world… flourishes only in and as the variance among the beings that comprise it. Difference is at the origin of the world: it ‘worlds.’”
The Poet of the People Sings of Freedom: Carl Sandburg on Human Nature’s Greatest Hindrance to Social Justice and How to Transcend It
How to protect yourself from the “misuse and violation of the sacred portions of your personality.”
The Storm, the Rainbow, and the Soul: Coleridge on the Interplay of Terror and Transcendence in Nature and Human Nature
“In the hollow… I sate for a long while sheltered, as if I had been in my own study in which I am now writing: there I sate with a total feeling worshipping the power and ‘eternal link’ of energy.”
The Stuff of Stars: A Stunning Marbled Serenade to the Native Poetry of Science and the Cosmic Interleaving of Life
A consummate celebration of the improbable loveliness of life amid the edgeless panorama of cosmic being.
Astronomy, Race, and the Unwitnessed Radiance Inside History’s Blind Spots
A poetic instrument for observing and redrawing the spectrum of privilege and possibility.
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