We know that life is the self-correcting mechanism for error — as much in its evolutionary history as in its existential reality.
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The Scientific Poetics of Affection: Lewis Thomas on Altruism and Why We Are Wired for Friendship
marine biologist Rachel Carson, who sparked the environmental movement with her epoch-making 1962 book Silent Spring, wrote in reflecting on science and our spiritual bond with nature.
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The Fragile Species: A Forgotten Masterpiece of Perspective on How to Live with Ourselves and Each Other
When Earth first erupted with color, flowers took over so suddenly and completely that, two hundred million years later, the baffled Darwin called this blooming conquest an “abominable mystery.
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Front Porch Reflections 