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The Lily vs. the Eagle: D.H. Lawrence on the Key to Balancing Intimacy and Independence in Love
The Lily vs. the Eagle: D.H. Lawrence on the Key to Balancing Intimacy and Independence in Love

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Nature’s Oldest Mandolin: The Poetic Science of How Cicadas Sing
Nature’s Oldest Mandolin: The Poetic Science of How Cicadas Sing

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Robert Louis Stevenson on What Makes Life Worth Living
Robert Louis Stevenson on What Makes Life Worth Living

“The true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing.”

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How the Octopus Came to Earth: Stunning 19th-Century French Chromolithographs of Cephalopods
How the Octopus Came to Earth: Stunning 19th-Century French Chromolithographs of Cephalopods

The art-science that captured the wonder of some of “the most brilliant productions of Nature.”

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Practical Mysticism: Evelyn Underhill’s Stunning Century-Old Manifesto for Secular Transcendence and Seeing the Heart of Reality
Practical Mysticism: Evelyn Underhill’s Stunning Century-Old Manifesto for Secular Transcendence and Seeing the Heart of Reality

“Because mystery is horrible to us, we have agreed for the most part to live in a world of labels; to make of them the current coin of experience, and ignore their merely symbolic character, the infinite gradation of values which they misrepresent.”

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