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The Strange and Wondrous Science of Seeing with Sound – The Marginalian

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals,” the great nature writer Henry Beston […]

“If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in,” Rachel Carson wrote as she contemplated

Yes, we spend our lives trying to discern where we end and the rest of the world begins. The boundary

Simone Weil (February 3, 1909–August 24, 1943) is both among the twentieth century’s most magnificent minds and its greatest cultural

Celebrated Italian novelist, philosopher, essayist, literary critic, and list-lover Umberto Eco (January 5, 1932–February 19, 2016) has had a long

Not long after writing about the bowerbird’s enchantment in blue, I walked out of my house and gasped at the

Life — the measure of our aliveness beyond mere existence — is largely of matter of how much beauty, how

“Our normal waking consciousness,” William James wrote in his pioneering work on transcendent experiences, “is but one special type of

By Maria Popova Alongside humans, leafcutter ants form some of nature’s vastest, most sophisticated societies — a single mature colony