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Capacity for Wonder and Sunsets

The Anthropocene Reviewed

CHAPTER

We Are Never Far From Wonders

Bob Greene: The wonders do not cease. He says aesthetic beauty is as much about how and whether you look as what you see from the quark to the supernova. In all those senses, the sun is kind of like a god, he writes; it's difficult or even dangerous to look at. "I am in many ways a product of its light," Greene says.

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