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The Living Mountain: Pioneering Scottish Mountaineer and Poet Nan Shepherd’s Forgotten Masterpiece About Our Relationship with Nature
The Living Mountain: Pioneering Scottish Mountaineer and Poet Nan Shepherd’s Forgotten Masterpiece About Our Relationship with Nature

“Place and a mind may interpenetrate till the nature of both is altered.”

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John Updike’s Playful and Profound Ode to the Neutrino, Read by “Humans of New York” Creator Brandon Stanton
John Updike’s Playful and Profound Ode to the Neutrino, Read by “Humans of New York” Creator Brandon Stanton

A celebration of the imperceptible that governs the universe on the most fundamental level.

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The Hidden Lives of Owls
The Hidden Lives of Owls

A sixty-seven-million-year odyssey of science and myth.

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Hannah Arendt on Action and the Pursuit of Happiness
Hannah Arendt on Action and the Pursuit of Happiness

“The rediscovery of action and the reemergence of a secular, public realm of life may well be the most precious inheritance the modern age has bequeathed upon us who are about to enter an entirely new world.”

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Thoreau on Nature as Prayer
Thoreau on Nature as Prayer

“In the street and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean.”

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I and Thou: Philosopher Martin Buber on the Art of Relationship and What Makes Us Real to One Another
I and Thou: Philosopher Martin Buber on the Art of Relationship and What Makes Us Real to One Another

“The primary word I–Thou can only be spoken with the whole being. The primary word I–It can never be spoken with the whole being.”

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Stephen Hawking on the Meaning of the Universe
Stephen Hawking on the Meaning of the Universe

A rare existential reflection from the man who set out to devise a theory of everything.

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How New York Breaks Your Heart: A Photographic Elegy for the City of Electric Beauty with an Edge of Sorrow
How New York Breaks Your Heart: A Photographic Elegy for the City of Electric Beauty with an Edge of Sorrow

“First, it lets you fall in love with it…”

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Zadie Smith on What Writers Can Learn from Some of History’s Greatest Dancers
Zadie Smith on What Writers Can Learn from Some of History’s Greatest Dancers

“Between propriety and joy choose joy.”

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Bear and Wolf: A Tender Illustrated Fable of Walking Side by Side in Otherness
Bear and Wolf: A Tender Illustrated Fable of Walking Side by Side in Otherness

A watercolor serenade to kinship across difference in a shared world.

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