Reads tagged with “out of print”
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 Beauty of the Overlooked: Philip Henry Gosse’s Stunning 19th-Century Illustrations of Coastal Creatures and Reflections on the Delicate Kinship of Life
“These objects are, it is true, among the humblest of creatures that are endowed with organic life… Here we catch the first kindling of that spark, which glows into so noble a flame in the Aristotles, the Newtons, and the Miltons of our heaven-gazing race.”
Rocky Mountain Flowers: The Daring Life and Art of Pioneering Plant Ecologist Edith Clements
“There seems little doubt that the application of the principles of ecology to human affairs, whether personal, national or world-wide, would go far in solving the problems that beset us.”
Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being
“One has to shut off that nagging part of the mind and go on without it with bravo and philosophy.”
Road to Survival: Wisdom on Resilience from the Forgotten Visionary Who Shaped the Modern Environmental Movement
“If we ourselves do not govern our destiny, firmly and courageously, no one is going to do it for us.”
Drawing a Tree: Uncommon Vintage Italian Meditation on the Existential Poetics of Diversity and Resilience Through the Art and Science of Trees
A subtle sylvan celebration of how our hurts and our healings shape the singular beauty of our character.
José Ortega y Gasset on the True Meaning and Measure of Intelligence
“Intelligence asserts itself above all not in art, nor in science, but in intuition of life.”
The Secret of Happiness: Bronson Alcott on Gardening and Genius
“Every plant one tends he falls in love with… Only persons of perennial genius attract or recreate as the plants, and of books we may say the same, as of the magic of solitude.”
The Tree House: A Tender Wordless Story about Our Relationship to Nature
An ecological symphony between the bears and the deep blue sea.
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