“The day I’m killed,
my killer, rifling through my pockets,
will find travel tickets:
One to peace,
one to the fields and the rain,
and one to the conscience of humankind.

Dear killer of mine, I beg you:
Do not stay and waste them.
Take them, use them.
I beg you to travel.” — Samih al-Qasim

(one of the most famous Palestinian poets of our time.)

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atomos:

Moon rising (by STEPfuturistico)

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davereed:

mothernaturenetwork:

Green burial: How to turn a human body into compost
Swedish company develops a green procedure that involves freeze drying a body and returning it to the soil without chemicals.

I want to do this!

For most of us, when we die we are pumped full of chemicals and left to shrivel in a metal box 6 feet under.

I’d rather go back into the earth.

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felineowl:

Cricket No More
Photograph courtesy David Hughes

Crickets too can fall prey to zombie fungi (as pictured), though little is known about the fungus species that brought this insect to its horrific end.

Hughes plans to remedy that—and expects to find many more zombie fungus species in the forests of Brazil.

“This is only the tip,” he said, “of what will be a very large iceberg.”

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somethingchanged:

Alastair Heseltine.

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ilovecharts:

A Schitty Chart

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elspethjane:

What makes Crater Lake unique, though, is its most celebrated occupant: not a fish, not a bird, but a floating tree trunk known familiarly for decades as the Old Man of the Lake. And what makes this ancient hemlock so very remarkable is that it has been bobbing, absolutely vertically, in the water for as long as Crater Lake has been documented. The Old Man has certainly been there for well over a hundred years, since the earliest known reference to it dates back to 1896 .

(via The Old Man of the Lake « A Blast From The Past)

yama-bato:

Parmigianino

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Study Of Trees

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americansatori:

kaughtbluehanded:

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cosmicforest:

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carefulwiththatoxygen:

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