The tallest redwood has grown to 260 feet. The average age of these magnificent old-growth redwoods is 600 to 800 years; the oldest is dated at 1,200 years. [MORE]

Robert Coles tells stories. He has been telling stories since his acclaimed five-volume book series Children of Crisis appeared in 1967. The Pulitzer Prize he won for volumes II and III of that series in 1973 was the first of much other recognition for his [MORE]

“When I am working, I feel myself to be practicing a craft rather than following a method.” So spoke Freeman Dyson in a 1992 lecture given at a conference of scientists and philosophers at Cambridge University. [MORE]

There are some stories that are so fanciful that truth is stretched beyond belief, becoming in the process a paradox. Stanley Weintraub tells one such story (Silent Night, 2001). [MORE]

The annual trek through the academic school year has taken on something of a gesture toward keeping alive the patterns of renewal that the anthropologist Laurens van der Post spoke of in his writings on the indigenous cultures of Africa. [MORE]

While there is deep irony when a poem is wildly famous but its author is not, given the poem we have in mind, the author didn’t much mind his anonymity. [MORE]

Loren Eiseley (1907-1977) was by trade a physical anthropologist; by instinct a naturalist, writer, and poet; and by disposition a stranger. [MORE]

In 1988 Bill Moyers interviewed Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot for a PBS series, A World of Ideas. At the time, Lawrence-Lightfoot was a professor of education at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. [MORE]

Nora Watson is 28 and she is being interviewed. She is an editor for a company that publishes health care literature. [MORE]

In 1988 Bill Moyers interviewed Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot for a PBS series, A World of Ideas. [MORE]