The Virgin Mary Tree of Polk City, Iowa, inspires us to imagine and improvise as we engage with the world around us.
Mentioned in today’s episode:
- The Virgin Mary Tree of Polk City on the Roadside America website, https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/45877
- Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture, Belknap Press, 1995.
- Stephen T. Asma, The Evolution of Imagination, University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- Luca Tateo, A Theory of Imagining, Knowing, and Understanding, Springer, 2020.
- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Macmillan and Co., 1872.
- “What Life Means to Albert Einstein,” George Sylvester Viereck, Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/what_life_means_to_einstein.pdf
