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We are not rotten- just ignorant.

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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

- Carl Sagan, "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage"

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Seven Rila Lakes

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Camelia Farhoodi

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Crux, Carina & the Magellanic Clouds at Cowcowing Lakes, Western Australia

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“I think when I’m old I’m going to have gray hair. It’s already turning gray, so I’ll definitely have gray hair. Maybe I’ll have bulked up at that point. My dad has skinny legs and arms, but he’s buff in the middle. So hopefully I’ll be that. I’ll probably just be sitting around. But not in a rocking chair or anything,  just on the ground. Maybe in a boat. I think it would be cool to have a boat. I used to always make fun of straight dudes who talked about fishing. But now I’m thinking: maybe I should fish. Really learn to survive off the land. Like gut the fish myself and gross out the kids. Not my kids necessarily, but maybe my siblings’ kids, I’ll be the best worst uncle ever. I’m also hoping that I’ll have drawn a lot of stuff by then. Maybe even published a few books. And hopefully there will be a nice handful of people who really like my stuff. They’ll think it was a nice contribution to the world. And they’ll care when I die. But mainly I’m just glad I get to be an old man. I could never imagine myself as an old woman. Like, I couldn’t. So the future was just– nothing. But now I’m here. So I feel like I can’t be too upset about anything, you know? Because when I looked at the future, there was nothing. And now there’s something. And that’s everything.”

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Red dahlias.

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Milky Way at Charles Knife Canyon - Exmouth, Western Australia Nikon d810a - 85mm - ISO 6400 - f/2.5 - Foreground: 24 x 30 seconds - Sky: 32 x 30 seconds - iOptron SkyTracker - Hoya Starscape filter

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Milky Way at York, Western Australia

Nikon d810a - 50mm - ISO 6400 - f/2.5 - Foreground: 7 x 30 seconds - Sky: 35 x 30 seconds - iOptron SkyTracker - Hoya Red Intensifier filter

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Casa Vista

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 We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

- Kurt Vonnegut, "If this isn't nice, what is?"

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Algo me han dicho la tarde y la montaña. Ya lo he perdido.

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The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.

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Whatever fate befalls you, do not give way to great rejoicings or great lamentation; partly because all things are full of change, and your fortune may turn at any moment; partly because men are so apt to be deceived in their judgment as to what is good or bad for them.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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"... to let the rustling of the leaves beckon forth the stirrings and murmurings on the edge of the psyche, which we so often brush away in order to go on being the smaller version of ourselves we have grown accustomed to being out of the unfaced fear that the grandeur of life, the grandeur of our own untrammeled nature, might require of us more than we are ready to give."

- Maria Popova