Feb 6, 2019 | Discovering Wonder, Natural Steward, Wednesday Quotes
“For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.” Aristotle, Metaphysics When it comes to certain wonder-full things in the world around us, life experience can have a stultifying effect in our souls. We become...
Feb 13, 2019 | Discovering Wonder, Natural Steward, Wednesday Quotes
“Of natural bodies some have life in them, others do not.” Aristotle, On the Soul It seldom catches our attention. So easy is it for us to pass it by without noticing. That tree is alive. Choose the tree—it matters not which one: the specimen maple in...
Feb 20, 2019 | Discovering Wonder, Natural Steward, Wednesday Quotes
“By nature animals are born with the faculty of sensation…” Aristotle, Metaphysics Perhaps of all the wonders of the natural world none is as magnificent as this: some creatures can see. One almost shudders to ask: what does it mean to see something? Here...
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