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Hello. My name is Maria Popova and The Marginalian is my one-woman labor of love — marginalia on our search for meaning, from science and philosophy to poetry and children’s books — free, ad-free, AI-free, fully human since 2006.
Born an email to seven friends under the outgrown name Brain Pickings and eventually included in the Library of Congress permanent web archive of culturally valuable materials, it remains animated by the ultimate question that binds us all: What is all this?
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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...far beyond the realm of human-wrested metaphor, trees are sovereign marvels of nature, dazzling in the native poetics of their biological and ecological reality.
Their photosynthesis is nature’s way of making life from light.
Chlorophyll — which shares a chemical kinship with the hemoglobin in our blood — allows a tree to capture photons, extracting a portion of their energy to make the sugars that make it a tree — the raw material for leaves and bark and roots and branches — then releasing the photons at lower wavelengths back into the atmosphere.
A tree is a light-catcher that grows life from air — an enormous eye tuned to the light of the universe.
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
