"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans"

"My Impossible Five would be: Cape mountain leopard, aardvark, pangolin, riverine rabbit and white lion. These animals had survived into our modern age largely due to their elusiveness. Their ‘impossib…"

"“in northern India, rivers in general have early Sanskrit names from the Vedic period, and names derived from the daughter languages of Sanskrit later on."

"When modern horror films or fundamentalists talk about “demons,” they mean something very different than what Socrates meant by the term. It was a lot closer to what I was talking about: the essential…"

"The mystics themselves do not seem to have believed their physical and mental sufferings to be a sign of grace, but it is unfortunate that it is precisely physical manifestations which appeal most to …"