Leonard Da Vinci wrote that water is the driving force of nature. And in a world too often marked by our divisions, water may well be the single element that connects us, for life simply cannot ...

Charles Darwin wondered if animals were aware of themselves. Allowed to visit a rare orangutan in the London Zoo, he brought a mirror and observed the ape apparently make faces at its own reflection.

To view rivers only as sources and drains is to reduce them to base functions rather than to see them as the life-giving, ...

“Water is the mirror of the mind,” according to Emoto. Emoto’s research demonstrates that human vibrational energy; words, spoken or written, feelings and music, affect the molecular ...

The underlying patterns of the world are mathematical. In “Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature” (Harper-Collins, 384 pages, $25.95), Marcus du Sautoy, professor of mathematics at Oxford ...

Our air, water, and our bodies are polluted with ... As Jung has intimated and many cultures have taught, nature is a mirror of the psyche for each of us. What do you see, hear, feel in the ...

The second fish replies: “What the hell is water?” That’s more or less the question Nature faced when putting together this collection of articles on the ubiquitous substance on which all ...

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