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.

The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.

History is an agreed-upon fiction.

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

As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.