An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet for the tiniest fraction of that planet's four and a half thousand million years of existence. In many ways we are a bio...
And here lies the crux of the matter: to say that nature is personal may mean not so much seeing the world differently as acting differently -- or, to state it another way, it may mean interacting with more-than-human others in nature as if those oth...
Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts, but as a whole, each portion of which throws light on all the other, and that the tendency of all is to improv...
I am as proud to be called a feminist as I am to be called a Jew, or an American. Feminism is an indivisible part of who I am, and I remain mystified by the stigma that has been attached to the idea that women are human beings. It sounds so obvious a...
A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was ...
Potential has a shelf life.
I may have power but I do not have strength.
My Lord, my God here are my words
On angel's wings, love flew in.
My eyes are my greatest sin.
It took a pair of ghosts to open my eyes.
With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
One eye sees, the other feels.
Galaxies of nothing are going on in her eyes.
Darkness shields as much as it threatens.
The eye is always half-full.
Eyes skip a low-key profile.
His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.
