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Last updated almost 2 years ago
M.C. Escher on Creativity and Grasping the Largest Mystery Through the Immense Beauty of the Very Small
almost 2 years ago
“What is that so-called reality; what is this theory other than a...
Le Monde de la Mer: Stunning 19th-Century French Illustrations of the Wonders of the Sea
almost 2 years ago
Dive into “the world of the sea in its luxury and its...
Nature Is Always Listening: The Science of Mushrooms, Music, and How Sound Waves Stimulate Mycelial Growth
almost 2 years ago
What playing music has to do with the happiness of the forest...
The Unphotographable: Jack Kerouac’s Soaring Diary Entry About Self-Understanding and the Elemental Vastness of the Windblown World
almost 2 years ago
Sometimes, a painting in words is worth a thousand pictures. I think...
Nick Cave on Music, Mystery, and the Relationship Between Vulnerability and Freedom
almost 2 years ago
“There is more going on than we can see or understand, and...
Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska’s Poem “Love at First Sight,” Illustrated
almost 2 years ago
“Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of...
The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular
almost 2 years ago
“Everything impinges on everything else… Everything is potentially everywhere.” The hardest state...
The Temple of Flora: Stunning Illustrations of Flowers Inspired by Erasmus Darwin’s Radical Scientific Poem About the Sexual Reproduction of Plants
almost 2 years ago
“If thou art perfectly at leisure… walk in, and view the wonders...
How to Be a Swimmer in the Stream of Time: Poet, Painter, and Philosopher Etel Adnan on the Antidote to Disorientation and Isolation
almost 2 years ago
“The definition of the soul is made of these places where you...
The Woman Who Saved Native Song
almost 2 years ago
“We understand the people better if we know their music, and we...
Reclaiming Our Human Potential in the Age of Technological “Progress”
almost 2 years ago
“People now use less than half their potential forces because ‘Progress’ has...
How to Be Un-Dead: Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the Key to Living Fully
almost 2 years ago
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have...