Quote for Today: Farid ud Din ‘Attar
You think your monarch’s palace of more worth Than Him who fashioned it and all the earth. The home we seek is in eternity; The Truth we seek is like a …
Quote for Today: Philipp Meyer
When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting …
Quote for Today: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sometimes since I’ve been in the garden I’ve looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was …
Quote for Today: Ellsworth Kelly
When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I’ve got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything. —Ellsworth Kelly
Quote for Today: Paul Auster
Surely it is an odd way to spend your life – sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after …
Quote for Today: L.M. Montgomery
I love my garden, and I love working in it. To potter with green growing things, watching each day to see the dear, new sprouts come up, is like …
Window on the Universe: The Hubble Space Telescope Turns 25
Deep space photography explores the craftsmanship of the cosmos. Where do we draw the dividing line between art and science? On April 24, 1990, the Discovery Shuttle mission STS-31 launched the Hubble Space …
Quote for Today: Erwin Schrödinger
The man who has never at any time felt consciously struck by the extreme strangeness and oddity of the situation in which we are involved, we know not how, …
Quote for Today: Hans Cloos
It was during my enchanted days of travel that the idea came to me, which, through the years, has come into my thoughts again and again and always happily—the idea …
Animal Images: Inspiration from Nature, Part One
From adorable kittens and puppies to majestic lions and wolves, we love pictures of animals. What need do they fulfill? When I am attracted to the image of animal, be …