I do not run from beauty, my own or anyone else’s. If it is a gift, I claim it and I use it. And if it is a curse, well…I claim it and use it.”...

Well, for instance, why does everything always have to be written from the point of view of a human being? Why not write from the point of view of a cat? Or a tree?

Whatever. There is a natural order to things, a hierarchy. And no less so in man. For man may be the master of nature, but he is also part of it. Every living thing, from...