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Of Trees, Tenderness, and the Moon – the stunning vintage woodblock prints of Japanese artist Hasui Kawase.

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The Lost Spells – from author Robert Macfarlane and artist Jackie Morris, a rewilding of the human heart in a lyrical illustrated invocation of nature.

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French artist Paul Sougy’s stunning mid-century scientific diagrams of plants, animals, and the human body, forgotten for decades, newly salvaged from dusty vintage textbooks and obscure French government archives.

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Absolutely incredible footage of a self-inflating octopus, for another reminder that this is Earth’s most wondrously alien creature.

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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons — the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night.

Walt Whitman, born on this day in 1819, on what makes life worth living.

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The late, great Ursula K. Le Guin on poetry and science as complementary modes of comprehending and tending to the natural world. For a living celebration of that sentiment, tune into The Universe in Verse, which will be livestreamed on April 28.

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David Attenborough has a new documentary about Earth’s most otherworldly wonder: bioluminescence. For an indispensable complement, savor this lyrical ode to bioluminescence from marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who ignited the modern environmental movement.

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The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth — soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife… Their administration is not properly, and cannot be, a matter of politics.

Happy Earth Day! In 1953, biologist Rachel Carson wrote this prescient letter protesting the government’s assault on science and nature. Carson catalyzed the environmental movement with her 1962 book Silent Spring, which inspired the first Earth Day.

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Astrophysicist Marcelo Gleiser on the simple beauty of the unexpected.

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Celebrate Cephalopod Week with Susan Middleton’s stunning photographs of marine invertebrates.

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Henry Beston’s beautiful and timely 1948 meditation on Solstice, seasonality, and the human spirit.

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Richard Feynman (b. May 11, 1918) on good, evil, and the Zen of science.

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This gorgeous photo of a lenticular cloud in Macedonia by AFP’s Armend Nimani makes you reappreciate the story of the young amateur meteorologist who classified the clouds.

Complement with poet Mark Strand and painter Wendy Mark’s lyrical love letter to the clouds.

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Henry Beston’s beautiful 1948 manifesto for reclaiming our humanity by breaking the tyranny of technology and relearning to be nourished by nature – so urgently timely today.

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The strawberry squid, with its single giant fluorescent green eye, is one of our planet’s most extraordinary creatures. Complement with Susan Middleton’s astonishing photographs of marine invertebrates.

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