Reads tagged with “illustration”

What Miss Mitchell Saw: An Illustrated Celebration of How 19th-Century Astronomer Maria Mitchell Blazed the Way for Women in Science
An illustrated homage to a rare visionary who opened up portals of possibility for generations.

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.”

Trees at Night: Stunning Rorschach Silhouettes from the 1920s
“Aside from the appearance of a tree by day or night, is it not kin of the human family with its roots in the earth and its arms stretching toward the sky as if to seek and to know the great mystery?”

Do You See What I See? A Poetic Vintage Art-Science Primer on the Building Blocks of the Perceptual World
A lovely illustrated serenade to a world strewn with “lines making patterns of beauty.”

Planting Trees as Resistance and Empowerment: The Remarkable Illustrated Story of Wangari Maathai, the First African Woman to Win the Nobel Peace Prize
“A tree is a little bit of the future.”

An Illustrated Ode to Attentiveness and the Art of Listening as a Wellspring of Self-Understanding, Empathy for Others, and Reverence for the Loveliness of Life
A sweet serenade to our shared belonging.

Eating the Sun: A Lovely Illustrated Celebration of Wonder, the Science of How the Universe Works, and the Existential Mystery of Being Human
“When one is considering the universe, unseen matter, our small backyard of the stuff, I think it is important, sensible even, to try and find some balance between laughter and uncontrollable weeping.”

What If: A French Illustrated Celebration of a More Possible World for the Children of Tomorrow
To be or not to be, bravely answered through the lens of could be.

The Lost Words: An Illustrated Dictionary of Poetic Spells Reclaiming the Language of Nature
From acorn to wren, a vibrant encyclopedia of enchantments reweaving our broken web of belonging with the rest of nature.

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