Michele Metych
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Michele has a B.A. in English from Southeast Missouri State University and an M.A. from DePaul University. She's a Chicago girl at heart, but she still misses living in a place with farms. When she's not editing, reading, or researching, she travels every chance she gets.
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Monk by the Sea, painting in oil on canvas created by German artist Caspar David Friedrich between 1808 and 1810. Its depiction of a man dwarfed by the starkness and magnitude of nature captures the loneliness of the human condition and the mystery and enormity of the surrounding universe. For most…
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