Ehrlich, Gretel, “On Water”, “The Solace of Open Spaces” (Viking 1985)

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid …

Ehrlich, Gretel, “On Water”, “The Solace of Open Spaces” (Viking 1985)

There is nothing in nature that can’t be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration. Cascading water equates …

Hoare, Philip “The Sea Inside” (Melville House 2014)

The sea doesn’t care, it can give or take. Ports are places of grief. Sailors declined to learn to swim, …

Rebecca Solnit “A Field Guide to Getting Lost” (Penguin 2005)

The terra incognita spaces on maps say that knowledge too is an island surrounded by oceans of the unknown but …