Add to ORKGIntroduction: In these days of great trouble and unrest, it is good to have something outside our own planet, something fine and distant and comforting for troubled minds. Let people look to the stars for comfort and find solace as others have. -- Annie Jump Cannon, 1941. In the beginning there were the heavens and the earth, and those on earth looked to the heavens for meaning
The whole day is in a minor key and colored gray. I sit on a high cliff with my back against a tree-...
Introduction: In pre-Civil War America, escaping slaves learned elementary astronomy, journeyed towa...
We live in an era in which we come closer everyday to conquering the elements, to a degree that earl...
Introduction: Now we have electric lights and the stars are hard to see. At sea we hide in luxuriou...
Introduction: Our ancestors sought solace—inner peace or comfort—by looking up. Sometimes the look w...
Introduction: Too few people care about the stars...Old people know the stars and children love the...
Introduction: On a dark night, a person with good vision can see for twenty quadrillion miles and as...
Introduction: Wahzhazhe come from the stars By their choice, not by falling Or being thrown out Of t...
“Prairies lead into the sky!” The remarkable sky of the Flint Hills seldom fails to create awe and e...
If you have spent time in the Flint Hills of Kansas, you will understand the restorative emotions th...
We can still see the sky the way our ancestors and Native Americans did. It is still there, unchange...
A story asking you to visualize the beauty of the prairie and the simple bits of nature. Includes th...
Introduction: On a calm, still night in the Flint Hills, I entered into another world. You can still...
There are no stars visible from here. Just crumbling cornices and pointed brickwork, and the gray pa...
Introduction: Imagine someone finding Herefords and sycamores unnatural and uninteresting, one who l...
The whole day is in a minor key and colored gray. I sit on a high cliff with my back against a tree-...
Introduction: In pre-Civil War America, escaping slaves learned elementary astronomy, journeyed towa...
We live in an era in which we come closer everyday to conquering the elements, to a degree that earl...
Introduction: Now we have electric lights and the stars are hard to see. At sea we hide in luxuriou...
Introduction: Our ancestors sought solace—inner peace or comfort—by looking up. Sometimes the look w...
Introduction: Too few people care about the stars...Old people know the stars and children love the...
Introduction: On a dark night, a person with good vision can see for twenty quadrillion miles and as...
Introduction: Wahzhazhe come from the stars By their choice, not by falling Or being thrown out Of t...
“Prairies lead into the sky!” The remarkable sky of the Flint Hills seldom fails to create awe and e...
If you have spent time in the Flint Hills of Kansas, you will understand the restorative emotions th...
We can still see the sky the way our ancestors and Native Americans did. It is still there, unchange...
A story asking you to visualize the beauty of the prairie and the simple bits of nature. Includes th...
Introduction: On a calm, still night in the Flint Hills, I entered into another world. You can still...
There are no stars visible from here. Just crumbling cornices and pointed brickwork, and the gray pa...
Introduction: Imagine someone finding Herefords and sycamores unnatural and uninteresting, one who l...
The whole day is in a minor key and colored gray. I sit on a high cliff with my back against a tree-...
Introduction: In pre-Civil War America, escaping slaves learned elementary astronomy, journeyed towa...
We live in an era in which we come closer everyday to conquering the elements, to a degree that earl...