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what a beautiful picture

oymuse:

It is my dream to live in a house like this.

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utnereader:

Our deepest emotions might not be politically correct, but getting past them means admitting them to ourselves.

wishing it was easier to have super powers…..

santmat:

“And the people under the sky were also very much the same…everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another’s existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same — people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.” (George Orwell)

The world we respond to and our response to it are one. We choose by our response whether the world will address us invitingly or threaten us menacingly. Herein lies our freedom from fear, anxiety, cynicism, and selfishness: Nothing can harm us emotionally, fundamentally, if we let the truth - especially the truth about the interior life of others - write itself upon our souls. (C. Terry Warner)

I should be able to make a story about remarkably true to life animals from my past.  The one I am having trouble with is how my weird friends come into it. 

revkin:

@nytopinion: Two biologists decry how reality TV misses ecological impact of global gold rush (art by Kristian Hammerstad). Excerpt: 

It is particularly unfortunate that these shows run on channels like History and Discovery — outlets that once capitalized on the images and stories of nature’s bounty. Tropical rivers and forests are marvelously diverse and intricate ecosystems, but the default tendency of these channels is to eschew nuanced portrayals in favor of sensationalist accounts of man-eating fish and reptiles. In this respect, it is perhaps consistent that they now exploit these habitats as a backdrop for glorified plunder.

In a promotional clip for “Bamazon,” one cast member and heavy machinery operator, Clate McDaniel — described as a nature-loving “California hippie” — expresses a mystic’s anticipation of finding “plants that can heal” and the “cure for cancer” in the jungles of Guyana. “You never know what you can find in the jungle, it’s untouched in so many places,” he says, and suggests that his mining team might “discover something new.”

We agree. Tropical rain forests and rivers hold an incalculable wealth of undiscovered treasures, each incomparable to gold in its aesthetic beauty. Unfortunately, miners’ fingers are not touching but tearing the fabric of the rain forest, and the potential for scientific discovery decreases with every ounce of gold harvested and every river channel annihilated.