The green waters of the reservoir are like glass. On the surrounding ridges, motionless pines tower over the man-made lake, and reflect off the surface of the water with mirror-like…
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thoughts on life
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A reader in America asks, “Can the people who have a natural talent to quiet their thoughts and clean their mind, not by effort and struggling, but only through insight,…
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It’s good science to show how humans evolved in nature, but it’s bad philosophy to say that man isn’t alienated from nature. The attempt to blur the difference between humans…
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“I am convinced that beauty will save the world. Maybe one person at a time, but it will save the world.” Renzo Piano, Italian architect
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About a dozen vultures are circling lazily in a gentle breeze over the gorge in the relatively unspoiled canyon of Upper Park. They are graceful searchers for gruesome remains. Without…
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If the events of recent months and years have demonstrated anything, it is that the Enlightenment ideals of reason and human rationality cannot hold sway over the destructive momentum of…
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Autumn is at its peak in northern California, and the normally muted colors in this Mediterranean climate are more intense than usual this year. A path behind the entrance is…
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Like most men of his generation, Roy had never talked about his experiences during World War II. But a few months before his death, we walked, he talked and I…