Anne Herbert
10 Jul 2022 - 29 Sep 2025
- Anne Herbert was a writer for the Whole Earth Catalog and its descendent magazine Coevolution Quarterly. She seems largely forgotten today; but I remember her wise and compassionate voice from those publications. It seemed to come from a different place than most, one that sounded like it would be welcoming. Her writing was simple, sincere, deep.
- A very nice appreciation by Kevin Kelly ct2: Proverbs for the Future
- I thought of her while reading the recent Stewart Brand biography, where she gets a few perfunctory mentions.
- She coined the phrase "Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty" that now adorns many bumpers. Sigh, the profound work gets forgotten but memes live on.