North West Passage

I think now that it was a longing to comprehend the language I hear in the woods that led me to science, to learn over the years to speak fl...

  When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her? Michel de Montaigne, An apology for Ra...

Don’t you think there is enough anxiety at present? Do you really think we need to manufacture more anxiety in the form of buildings? Christ...

The feeling of nature exists in the Gospels. Jesus speaks of the splendour of the lilies of the field. But I said that the oceanic feeling, ...

  It is not just an arbitrary idea that the world is good, but it is good because we can experience its goodness. We can experience our wor...

Cutting open the vegetables left me awestruck. Where did all these things come from? Why are they the way they are? And how is it that I am ...

  I am often reminded that if I had bestowed on me the wealth of Croesus, my aims must still be the same and my means essentially the same. ...