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In 1957, Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) became the second youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to him for work that “with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times.”.........................Click to read more

Shortly before his sixtieth birthday and a decade after issuing his immensely prescient admonition that America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without," Whitman writes under the heading “DEMOCRACY IN THE NEW WORLD”:....Click to read more

“Awe is the moment when ego surrenders to wonder. This is our inheritance - the beauty before us. We cry. We cry out. There is nothing sentimental about facing the desert bare. It is a terrifying beauty.”   Read more

"It is often said that we are born scientists — naturally curious, tickled rather than daunted by the unknown, unafraid to experiment and to stumble in learning the world"..........More

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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

"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

Advice on Life and Creative Integrity from Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson. Click here or the or image below to read the Brain Pickings article 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

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Artist and author Rachel Ignotofsky.
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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