Reads tagged with “culture”
Through the First Antarctic Night: A Pioneering Polar Explorer on the Resilience of the Human Spirit
“There was a naked fierceness in the scenes, a boisterous wildness in the storms, a sublimity and silence in the still, cold dayless nights, which were too impressive to be entirely overshadowed by the soul-despairing depression.”
Advice to a Daughter from Pioneering Political Philosopher and Feminism Founding Mother Mary Wollstonecraft
“Always appear what you are, and you will not pass through existence without enjoying its genuine blessings, love and respect.”
How to Find Your Artistic Voice: Ben Folds on Empathy, Creativity, and the Courage to Know Yourself
“What an artist has to offer is obvious to just about anyone else but the artist him- or herself.”
Viktor Frankl on Humor as a Lifeline to Sanity and Survival
“Humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.”
Underland: An Enchanting Journey into the Hidden Universe Beneath Our Feet
“Into the underland we have long placed that which we fear and wish to lose, and that which we love and wish to save.”
I Like You: An Almost Unbearably Lovely Vintage Illustrated Ode to Friendship
A touching serenade to the little things that add up to the bigness of a true platonic love.
Ancestor Worship with Mother Nature: How Indigenous Death Rituals Illuminate the Web of Life
“For almost all oral cultures… the body’s decomposition into soil, worms, and dust can only signify the gradual reintegration of one’s ancestors and elders into the living landscape, from which all, too, are born.”
How Nature Works, in Stunning Psychedelic Illustrations of Scientific Processes and Phenomena from a 19th-Century French Physics Textbook
A scrumptious quest “to satisfy that invincible tendency of our minds, which urges us on to understand the reason of things.”
20-Year-Old Lord Byron’s Moving Elegy for His Beloved Dog
“To mark a friend’s remains these stones arise; / I never knew but one — and here he lies.”
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