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“I am alien to the noises of cities, of people, to the greed of machinery that does not sleep, the hum of power that eats up the night. Where rain, sunlight and darkness are contemned, I cannot sleep. I do not trust anything that has been fabricated to replace the climate of woods or prairies. I can have no confidence in places where the air is first fouled and then cleansed, where the water is first made deadly and then made safe with other poisons. There is nothing in the world of buildings that is not fabricated, and if a tree gets in among the apartment houses by mistake it is taught to grow chemically. It is given a precise reason for existing. They put a sign on it saying it is for health, beauty, perspective; that it is for peace, for prosperity; that it was planted by the mayor’s daughter. All of this is mystification. The city itself lives on its own myth. Instead of waking up and silently existing, the city people prefer a stubborn and fabricated dream; they do not care to be a part of the night, or to be merely of the world. They have constructed a world outside the world, against the world, a world of mechanical fictions which contemn nature and seek only to use it up, thus preventing it from renewing itself and man.”

— Thomas Merton • Raids On The Unspeakable

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Goths Cross A River [Unknown Date]

Artist: Évariste Vital Luminais - ‘The Painter of the Gauls’ (1821-1896)

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A herd of wild Przhevalsky horses in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Photograph: Tatyana Deryabina/University of Porthmouth. & a 17,000-year-old horse painting at the Lascaux cave in France

More: https://thetravelbible.com/top-artifacts-from-the-stone-age/

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'The Moon and a Shimmering Aurora'. John Williams Allison. 1866-1934.

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Flickering - Lofoten Islands, 2025

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Peder Mønsted - Sunset over a forest lake, 1895 (details)

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Happy Midsummer!

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Akseli Galen -Kalela

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Tattoos of the Siberian ice maiden

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carved bones with runic inscriptions digitally outlined | c. 300 - 500 CE | weser river (modern day lower saxony, germany)

in the landesmuseum natur und mensch collection

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brooch in the shape of a stag, copper alloy, asia c. 1000-500 b.c.

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Norhla Atelier

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