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“Nature’s particular gift to the walker… is to set the mind jogging, to make it garrulous, exalted, a little mad maybe — certainly creative and suprasensitive.” www.brainpickings.org

“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.” | Brain Pickings 

"From trees to consciousness to black holes, an immersion into the glory of the knowable and the splendor of the unknown" www.brainpickings.org

"In praise of the mundane, unquantifiable, impractical activities that feed creative work and fill life with meaning “... "Anger continued on past its usefulness becomes unjust, then dangerous…"  Read more

 A supreme lesson in authenticity from a being “so innocent and harmless, yet so savage.” | Brain Pickings by Maria Popova

BRAIN PICKINGS - MARIA POPOVA's labor of love, turns 10 today! On this special occasion, she shares the 10 most important things she has learned about life in this first decade. Click to read:https://www.brainpickings.org/?mc_cid=c7f9956a1e&mc_eid=57c0e3af4e

Autumn calls some birds to travel south while others remain and prepare for winter weather. Click here: goo.gl/Whidbey to read Kate Poss' article about Frances Wood's book “Brushed by Feathers: A Year of Birdwatching in the West.” on Whidbey Life Magazine

Learn more about Leslie Irish Evans ~ Author. Speaker. Cocktail Geek at:
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Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Artist and author Rachel Ignotofsky.
Click below to read the article published on Brain Pickings by Maria Popova

www.brainpickings.org/2016/07/28/women-in-science-rachel-ignotofsky/

French photographer Cedric Pollet travels the world to document the most beautiful tree barks in a project that is part stunning art photography, part implicit manifesto for biodiversity. Read more at: www.brainpickings.org/2010/11/02/cedric-pollet-bark