Nature

Annie Dillard (b. 1945) is an influential American writer, best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974), a genre-defying blend of memoir, natural history, and theology. While often called a “nature writer,” Dillard herself...

By Dan McKanan. Edited by Russell C. Powell Henry David Thoreau is many things to many people: an apostle of simplicity, a brilliant nature writer, a theorist of civil disobedience, one of the first Americans to turn to Asia for spiritual insight, and a...

ASC: How did you start your career as a botanical artist? What are your influences? DT: When I started painting, plants felt like a natural subject because of my experience of nature in Miami and Colombia. I was also interested in shamanism, and through...

Before his residency at MIT as a 2024-2025 Knight Science Journalism Fellow, Aaron Scott (not relation to Natalia Schwien Scott) hosted the podcasts Short Wave from NPR and Timber Wars from Oregon Public Broadcasting. Aaron also joined the recent Thinking...

In this conversation with Gnoseologies host Dr. Giovanna Parmigiani, Paul Stoller discusses his latest book, Wisdom From the Edge in which he describes what scholars can do to contribute to the social and cultural changes that shape a social future of...

On Sunday, April 28, a diverse group of participants from the Harvard Divinity School (HDS), including students, faculty, staff and affiliates, embarked on a field trip to the unique spiritual community known as the Church of the Woods in Canterbury, New...

“The periwinkle is blooming but I’m looking here.” Professor Don Pfister said with amusement, redirecting a group of thirty, rain-gear clad participants to look away from the delicate purple-blue flowers to where green lichen had formed between bricks on...

On February 16th, the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard Divinity School became the meeting ground for an exploration into the realms of plant intelligence, consciousness, and the symbiosis between science and spirituality. The...

Over the years, the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) has encouraged student-led reading groups that center around a topic, author, or text. Groups meet twice monthly throughout the academic year. Reading groups have included, The Divine...

On Wednesday, December 2, Munjed M. Murad, a ThD candidate at the Harvard Divinity School, delivered the presentation, Living the Dream: Ibn al-'Arabi on Transcending and Interpreting Life. The lecture, analyzing the writings of Ibn al-'Arabi (d. 1240) in...