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“It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, […]

“We hear and apprehend only what we already half know,” Thoreau wrote as he considered what it takes to see

It may be that creativity is just the name we give to how we awaken ourselves from the slumber of

By Maria Popova “When you are thoroughly able to understand these diagrams and the truths they inculcate,” the eccentric Victorian

Long ago, while visiting the photographic glass plates of nebulae and constellations at the Harvard College Observatory archives, I was

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

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

“It troubled me,” Emily Dickinson wrote, “how an Atom fell and yet the Heavens held.” The Heavens hold, and so

A century before Emily Dickinson wrote that “to be a Flower is profound Responsibility,” Erasmus Darwin (December 12, 1731–18 April