books
A painted landscape of fact and feeling along the flow of existence. …
“We are a music-making species — always have been, always will be — and music’s capacity to explore, express and address what it is to be human remains one of our greatest communal gifts.” …
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“In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.” …
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“We’ve barely begun to understand our place in the cosmos. As we continue to look out from our planet and contemplate the nature of reality, we should remember that there is a mystery right here where we stand.” …
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“Nature’s answer to those who seek to control nature through programmable machines is to allow us to build systems whose nature is beyond programmable control.” …
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A torch for traversing “the territory where no one possesses the truth… but where everyone has the right to be understood.” …
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“The sea holds an abundance of comfort and inspiration and danger, all that a person needs in order to rise to the full largesse of beauty… If you allow this beauty to become a blank, if you turn your back to the blues and deny your dependence on them, you might lose your place in the world, your actions would become small, your soul disengaged.” …
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From the rudiments of consciousness to the redemptions of conservation, with a side of existential reckoning. …
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“Intelligence asserts itself above all not in art, nor in science, but in intuition of life.” …
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“if you wanted to drown you could, but you don’t because finally after all this struggle and all these years you simply don’t want to any more, you’ve simply had enough of drowning and you want to live and you want to love” …
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“The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia.” …
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“The more stressful the environment, the more likely you are to see plants working together to ensure mutual survival.” …
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“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.” …
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“Through your words I feel so close to you that I can feel your laughter, so clean and honest.” …
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“The art of losing isn’t hard to master.” …
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“Books read us back to ourselves… The escape into another story reminds us that we too are another story. Not caught, not confined, not predestined.” …
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“Things have roots and branches… If the root be in confusion, nothing will be well governed.” …
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“We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of world it is.” …
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“The very task of love and of language is to give to one and the same phrase inflections which will be forever new.” …
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“The day ends. The night falls. And in between… there is the blue hour.” …
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“Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.” …
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“Love your hands! Love them. Raise them up and kiss them… Love your neck; put a hand on it, grace it, stroke it and hold it up… Love your heart. For this is the prize.” …
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A love story, a time story, an invitation not to mistake difference for defect and to welcome, across the accordion scales of time and space, diversity as nature’s wellspring of resilience and beauty. …
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The wonder of wading into the black lake boiling with light. …
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Branchings of belief from the lovely common root of “holy” and “whole” in the interleaving of all things. …
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Audre Lorde, Keith Haring, Bruce Lee, chance, love, black holes, constraint as a catalyst of creativity, and a whisper of Whitman. …
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