And they challenge us to see beyond what’s right in front of us, to look past the landscape as it exists and peer into realms of ecological, geological, and cosmological time accessible only through the imagination.

There is a profound gap between the deep experience of nature that science, history, and art can offer when we connect them to our lived experience in place and the shallow, anthropocentric experience of the human-built world typical of modern life. If we believe that the deep experience of place informed by science, history, and art is worth... See more

to live in New York is to live in a phenomenological world of buzzing, vibrant, multidimensional spacetime.

We’d moved from New York, which of course is even more human, human will in steel and concrete raised high, an empire city built to accumulate and exploit, ablaze with the names of its paragons: Morgan, Rockefeller, Chrysler, Trump. Yet the city’s churning cosmopolitan dynamism, human as it may be, remains inextricable from its geological and... See more