Martin LeFevre

The essence of movement is motionlessness. The essence of beauty is formlessness.

Upstream, four turkeys glide across the gorge. It’s so unusual to see them in full flight that I don’t know what they are for a second. They’re not ungainly birds…

Science cannot function and advance without two premises, both of which are essential to the scientific enterprise, but adverse to life and right living: dualism and reductionism. The ultimate example…

After nearly two hours overlooking the volcanic gorge without a soul in sight, the solitude is palpable. It’s neither inside or outside, but both. Strange how solitude, aloneness and loneliness…

Forecasts about the inevitability of catastrophic climate change at the hands of man, and social upheaval stemming from it, are becoming commonplace. Look behind the big science and small talk…

Jane Goodall, longtime observer and friend of chimpanzees in Tanzania, said recently that like humans, chimps “have a dark, brutal side to their nature.” Maybe they can teach us something.

With America at the nadir of its 237-year history, and American culture fast becoming the global culture, perhaps it’s the right time to revisit two truncated bursts of creativity in…

Deep beneath the earth, in a pool of super-chilled liquid xenon in an abandoned gold mine in the Black Hills of South Dakota, scientists are looking for ‘dark matter’. But…