Rachel Carson returned her borrowed stardust to the universe 60 years ago today, having forever changed our relationship to the living world. Link in profile for her breathtaking deathbed letter to her soul mate about the meaning of life.
instagram.comRachel Carson returned her borrowed stardust to the universe 60 years ago today, having forever changed our relationship to the living world. Link in profile for her breathtaking deathbed letter to her soul mate about the meaning of life.
I’m not sure where I’d be if I hadn’t met @eliseloehnen (I’m the luckiest guy in the world because I did). We’ve traveled the world together, and we’ve also traveled deep into our own minds in trying to figure our shit out together. Elise is the author of the New York Times bestseller On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good and the creator of the epic podcast Pulling the Thread. I’ve never met anyone as smart and wonderful as Elise. I love her with my full heart. And then some. Which is why she’s chapter 10 in my new book x Richard Pre Order before Nov 19!
instagram.comEmanating from these lives are larger questions about the measure of a good life and what it means to leave a lasting mark of betterment on an imperfect world: Are achievement and acclaim enough for happiness? Is genius? Is love? Weaving through the narrative is a set of peripheral figures — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Barrett Br... See more
Maria Popova • Figuring
But Thomas Hart, who still feared death’s sting, was grieving in his pew under the halted moons. Weak light shone on the brass plaque bolted to the coffin: ANNE MARGARET MACAULAY. So that varnished pine contained her flushed cheeks, walking shoes, prudence, preference for Yorkshire tea, shyness, cuttings of African violet, habit of testing the heat
... See moreSarah Perry • Enlightenment
Why did Carson feel so strongly the need to proselytize the wonders of wonder? Perhaps she sensed that, without it, an emotional connection with nature would be impossible; without it, the environmental movement had no hope.