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How to Befriend Time: The Gospel of Pete Seeger and Nina Simone
How to Befriend Time: The Gospel of Pete Seeger and Nina Simone

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”

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Mars and Our Search for Meaning: A Planetary Scientist’s Love Letter to Life
Mars and Our Search for Meaning: A Planetary Scientist’s Love Letter to Life

“It is the search for infinity, the search for evidence that our capacious universe might hold life elsewhere, in a different place or at a different time or in a different form.”

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The Living Wonder of Leafcutter Ants, in Mesmerizing Stop Motion
The Living Wonder of Leafcutter Ants, in Mesmerizing Stop Motion

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Eunice Newton Foote and the Birth of Climate Science: The Forgotten Woman Who Discovered the Greenhouse Effect
Eunice Newton Foote and the Birth of Climate Science: The Forgotten Woman Who Discovered the Greenhouse Effect

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How to Live in Light: A Blind Hero of the French Resistance on Seeing the Heart of Life and Contacting the Oneness of Being
How to Live in Light: A Blind Hero of the French Resistance on Seeing the Heart of Life and Contacting the Oneness of Being

“There is only one world. Things outside only exist if you go to meet them with everything you carry in yourself. As to the things inside, you will never see them well unless you allow those outside to enter in.”

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Octavia Butler’s Advice on Writing
Octavia Butler’s Advice on Writing

“No matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can’t possibly do this, somehow you do.”

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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating: An Uncommon Meditation on Presence and the Aperture of Wonder
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating: An Uncommon Meditation on Presence and the Aperture of Wonder

“Survival often depends on a specific focus: a relationship, a belief, or a hope balanced on the edge of possibility.”

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The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul
The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul

“Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.”

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Milan Kundera on the Power of Coincidences and the Musicality of How Chance Composes Our Lives
Milan Kundera on the Power of Coincidences and the Musicality of How Chance Composes Our Lives

“Human lives… are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence… into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of the individual’s life.”

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Kate Sessions and the Devotion to Delight: The Forgotten Woman Who Covered California with Trees and Flowers
Kate Sessions and the Devotion to Delight: The Forgotten Woman Who Covered California with Trees and Flowers

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