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An Illustrated Field Guide to the Science and Wonder of the Clouds
An Illustrated Field Guide to the Science and Wonder of the Clouds

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John Quincy Adams on Impostor Syndrome and the True Measure of Success
John Quincy Adams on Impostor Syndrome and the True Measure of Success

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The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind
The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind

“Every thought that has ever passed through your brain was made possible by plants.”

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What It’s Like to Be a Falcon: The Peregrine as a Portal to a Way of Seeing and a State of Being
What It’s Like to Be a Falcon: The Peregrine as a Portal to a Way of Seeing and a State of Being

“You cannot know what freedom means till you have seen a peregrine loosed into the warm spring sky to roam at will through all the far provinces of light.”

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The Universe in Verse Book
The Universe in Verse Book

“We need science to help us meet reality on its own terms, and we need poetry to help us broaden and deepen the terms on which we meet ourselves and each other. At the crossing point of the two we may find a way of clarifying our experience and of sanctifying it.”

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What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep
What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep

“It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real… It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality — a laboratory of consciousness that began in the bird brain.”

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Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity
Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity

“The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state.”

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The Messiah in the Mountain: Darwin on Wonder and the Spirituality of Nature
The Messiah in the Mountain: Darwin on Wonder and the Spirituality of Nature

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Nature’s Oldest Mandolin: The Poetic Science of How Cicadas Sing
Nature’s Oldest Mandolin: The Poetic Science of How Cicadas Sing

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The Paradise Notebooks: A Poet and a Geologist’s Love Letter to Life Lensed Through a Mountain
The Paradise Notebooks: A Poet and a Geologist’s Love Letter to Life Lensed Through a Mountain

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