We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.

Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.

We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.