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“Day by day I am approaching the goal which I apprehend but cannot describe,” Ludwig van Beethoven (December 16, 1770–March […]

“What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?” the Proust Questionnaire asked David Bowie. “Living in fear.” Partway

“I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all,” poet Diane Ackerman wrote in her sublime Cosmic Pastoral, “the plain

“Oh, there must be a little bit of air, a little bit of happiness… to let the form be felt…

“The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time,” Montaigne wrote half

“Out of the cradle onto the dry land… here it is standing… atoms with consciousness… matter with curiosity,” Richard Feynman

“We call it ‘Nature’; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be ‘Nature’ too,” Denise Levertov wrote in her stunning poem “Sojourns

“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