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Trees, Rivers, and the Exquisite Interdependence of Life: Artist Meredith Nemirov’s Consummate Map Paintings

Affirmation in Solitude: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Poetry of Penguins

How the Psychedelic Amanita Muscaria Mushroom May Have Inspired the Santa Legend of Lapland

The Art of Divination: D.H. Lawrence on the Power of Pure Attention

The Poetry of Science and Wonder as an Antidote to Self-Destruction: Rachel Carson’s Magnificent 1952 National Book Award Acceptance Speech

Farmhouse: Sophie Blackall’s Poetic Illustrated Tribute to Time and Tenderness

The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self: How a Circle of Friends and Lovers United Nature and Human Nature

Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Almost Unbearably Sweet Account of Sole-Parenting His Small Son

The Choreography of Everyday Life: A Leaping Antidote to Our Modern Loneliness

David Bowie on Creativity and His Advice to Artists

The Art of Receiving: John Steinbeck on the True Meaning of Gratitude

Storytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

How the Eel Almost Became America’s Thanksgiving Food

The Poetic Science of the Aurora Borealis

How We Co-Create and Recreate the World: Octavio Paz on Sor Juana, Poetry as Rebellion, and the Creative Collaboration Between Writers and Readers

M.C. Escher on Creativity and Grasping the Largest Mystery Through the Immense Beauty of the Very Small

Le Monde de la Mer: Stunning 19th-Century French Illustrations of the Wonders of the Sea

Nature Is Always Listening: The Science of Mushrooms, Music, and How Sound Waves Stimulate Mycelial Growth

The Unphotographable: Jack Kerouac’s Soaring Diary Entry About Self-Understanding and the Elemental Vastness of the Windblown World

Nick Cave on Music, Mystery, and the Relationship Between Vulnerability and Freedom

Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska’s Poem “Love at First Sight,” Illustrated

The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular

The Temple of Flora: Stunning Illustrations of Flowers Inspired by Erasmus Darwin’s Radical Scientific Poem About the Sexual Reproduction of Plants

How to Be a Swimmer in the Stream of Time: Poet, Painter, and Philosopher Etel Adnan on the Antidote to Disorientation and Isolation