“The distance between here and there is the answer to the wrong question.” | Continue reading
A subtle sylvan celebration of how our hurts and our healings shape the singular beauty of our character. | Continue reading
“Potentially, every tree is immortal.” | Continue reading
How our cosmic improbability confers dignity and meaning upon our shared existence. | Continue reading
“This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole.” | Continue reading
The story of the countercultural courage and persistence that shaped the modern ecological conscience. | Continue reading
“Doing and making are acts of hope, and as that hope grows we stop feeling overwhelmed by the troubles of the world. We remember that we — as individuals and groups — can do something about t… | Continue reading
“For most of their history… gardens have been more concerned with the power of plants than with their beauty — with the power, that is, to change us in various ways, for good and for il… | Continue reading
“We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.” | Continue reading
Cinematic songs of praise for the visible invisibilities and the silent symphonies that make life worth living. | Continue reading
“As always happens with contradictions, something in the assumptions has to give… Declaring something impossible leads to more things being possible.” | Continue reading
Notes from the odyssey of ongoingness, notes for the symphony of aliveness. | Continue reading
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
“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
“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
A hoot, a hummingbird, and an electronic hymn for the modern world. | 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