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Good things come to those who wait

Prints

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Whenever they kiss a star eats itself

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Velvet Worm (Euperipatoides sp.), family Peripatopsidae, QLD, Australia

photograph by Stephen Zozaya

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thinking about whale falls

(inspired by the work of @catadromously )

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feeling fish emotions today

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tree hugger has always been the weirdest term of disparagement. ya i would hug a tree. i love the earth she is my mommy

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think it's a deep consolation to know that spiders dream, that monkeys tease predators, that dolphins have accents, that lions can be scared silly by a lone mongoose, that otters hold hands, and ants bury their dead. that there isn't their life and our life. nor your life and my life. that it's just one teetering and endless thread and all of us, all of us, are entangled w it as deep as entanglement goes. v neat i think.

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"we live in an uncaring universe." sorry the special planet full of beauty and animals and food literally growing out of the ground isnt good enough for you. i guess

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Shahu Park, China

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Hapless

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“Be weary young ones, for he be upon you. That cloak of ash, hovering above us all, suspended beneath the graying sky.

His legs are but spindled limbs of an old and haggard pine. Eyes like the sun, fiery and billowing. Anura help you, if you spy those eyes.

Woe upon those especially, who glimpse his tapering death. The weapon he yields upon his face, oh sweet Anura; this will be your last memory.

There’s no helping your poor brumes, if this be what you witness. He pierces your skin, quick and clean. The crunch of your bones, the squeeze of his bill- this is the end for you, now.

You must understand that he is always watching. This, younglings, is why we look to the sky. Be ever watchful. Listen to every sound. Do not just hear it- feel it within you.

Fail, and your death shall not be as swift as he. Anura bless you.”

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— A common tale of forewarning, dedicated to froglets and tadpoles about the danger of great blue herons. Featuring ‘Poor Blunder’, a tragic and blunder-some character in traditional bullfrog folklore.

[ Children of Anura dictionary / glossary ]

Brume: Ghost, Spirit.

Anura: The god and deity of all modern amphibians, known by different names between species. She is called Anura to frogs and toads.

Alternative art under the cut for eye strain.

Shall our bond be unbroken by the will of nature.

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From the Wikipedia page on loons

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I started thinking about that one post about how from dogs POV humans are beings that live like 500+ years (because I was petting my dog and I was looking at her like “thirty thousand years of cooperation have led to this. our species have spent 30k years building up to the point where you, child of wolf, descendant of noble hunters and wild things,  would come all the way out of the office and come sit with me in the hopes of letting a souped up monkey rub its paws on you”)

and then I thought about what it must have been like for the first humans to let a fucking wolf, maybe only a few generations from the wild, behold their infant child. Like man can u believe that? Maybe this alliance is only a few years old and sure you’ve seen the wolf’s kids but now you’ve got one of your own. And even though you’ve seen this wolf tear out the throats of creatures that could kill you, this wolf is your family. This wolf is your friend, you love them and they love you and you gotta show ‘em the new kid, look, friend, I had a child. I know you are wild and dangerous, but look at this, my most precious thing, sniff him, give him a lil lick, his children and your children will be bound together for thirty thousand fucking years because I love you

There’s a set of  preserved footprints from 30k years ago that is a young child and a wolf standing side by side can you fucking imagine? Maybe the kid’s mom was like “hey go get some water from the stream, but take the wolf with you. I trust him, he will protect you.”

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This picture is so holy and gentle to me