“I think Mother Nature was trying to create one tiny perfect jewel, and she got it perfectly right.” ~The Hummingbird Whisperer The video below will be the most delightful two minutes you will spend today. It features a charming French lady who is sometimes called, “that crazy hummingbird lady” or, more commonly, “the hummingbird [...]
The title of this article is a quote from a favorite book of mine by Fr. Thomas Dubay, entitled The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet (Ignatius Press: 1999). In it he discusses the vast wonder of the created world. He, more than anyone I’ve read, sees the natural world as a [...]
And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams / call to the soul when man doth sleep, / so some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, / and into glory peep. ~Henry Vaughn, “They are all Gone into the World of Light” (Poetry Foundation) One of the wonders of science is the Periodic Table [...]