A lyric reminder that “the word for world is forest” and the feeling of forest is love. | Continue reading
“We want to believe that love is singular and exclusive, and it unnerves us to think that it might actually be renewable…” | Continue reading
“The emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” | Continue reading
“All things seem possible in nature; yet this seeming is always guarded by the eager quest of what IS true. Perhaps half the falsehood in the world is due to lack of power to detect the truth… | Continue reading
“Here lies the paradox of solitude. Look long and hard enough at yourself in isolation and suddenly you will see the rest of humanity staring back.” | Continue reading
“Crisis… is an attempt to dislodge us from a toxic status quo and constitutes an insistent call to rebuild our lives on a more authentic and sincere basis.” | Continue reading
“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 … | Continue reading
“Loving anybody and being loved by anybody is a tremendous danger, a tremendous responsibility.” | Continue reading
“The intention of deep listening and loving speech is to restore communication, because once communication is restored, everything is possible.” | Continue reading
“In the beginning was the white page. In the beginning was the Sufi in orbit… In the beginning was color. In the beginning was music.” | Continue reading
“There has always been a force struggling to respect higher values. None of the current evils rose without resistance, nor have they persisted without opposition.” | Continue reading
An epochal intersection of art and science, ecology and culture, psychology and microbiology. | Continue reading
“What a story is ‘about’ is to be found in the curiosity it creates in us, which is a form of caring.” | Continue reading
“You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.” | Continue reading
A hoot, a hummingbird, and an electronic hymn for the modern world. | Continue reading
“All things physical are information-theoretic in origin and this is a participatory universe… Observer-participancy gives rise to information.” | Continue reading
“Isn’t the flesh a way to drink of the fountain of otherhood, a way to taste the not-I, a way to blur the edges and thus feel the fact of them?… You need to both remember where love lea… | Continue reading
“Often the places we grow up in… influence how we perceive and conceptualize the world, give us metaphors to live by, and shape the purpose that drives us.” | Continue reading
A wildlife ecologist’s serenade to the season that makes you “want to linger long enough to hear every sound and look far enough to see into forever.” | Continue reading
“What happened could have happened to anyone, but not everyone could have carried on.” | Continue reading
“There are few pleasures in art greater than the secure sense that one can recognize beauty when one comes upon it… Recognizing the beautiful in an abstract art like music partakes somewhat o… | Continue reading
In praise of our unfathomed capacity to experience beautiful new things beyond our habitual ideas of the possible. | Continue reading
“This fluke, single, huge, cross-indexed, thermodynamic experiment of a story that the world has been inventing to tell itself at bedtime is still in embryo. It’s not even the outline o… | Continue reading
“To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.” | Continue reading
Tragedy and transcendence in the search for the spiritual in nature. | Continue reading
“Potentially, every tree is immortal.” | Continue reading
“Here man has invented the heavens but the moon, not to be usurped, shines sickle bright, gathering our souls.” | Continue reading
On solving problems vs. posing questions. | Continue reading
Astounding Oscar-winning adaptation of the Hemingway classic by Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov, made of 29,000 images finger-painted with pastels on glass. | Continue reading
“A life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.” | Continue reading
“You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to me being vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose.” | Continue reading
A painted landscape of fact and feeling along the flow of existence. | Continue reading
“There is so much inherent goodness in people that if they aren’t inhibited by traumas and are given half a chance, it shines through.” | Continue reading
The gasp beyond fact, contouring the central question of what it is like to be you. | Continue reading
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am t… | Continue reading
“The high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy.” | Continue reading
“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.R… | Continue reading
“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 n… | Continue reading
“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 h… | Continue reading
“To not have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.” | Continue reading
“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.” | Continue reading
A torch for traversing “the territory where no one possesses the truth… but where everyone has the right to be understood.” | Continue reading
“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, i… | Continue reading
From Newton to quantum physics to Hannah Arendt, a mind-bending, heart-opening invitation to welcome nature exactly as it is and ourselves exactly as we are. | Continue reading
From the rudiments of consciousness to the redemptions of conservation, with a side of existential reckoning. | Continue reading
“We all bear conflicting needs within us. We want both, simplicity and abundance.” | Continue reading
“Intelligence asserts itself above all not in art, nor in science, but in intuition of life.” | Continue reading
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” | Continue reading