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“I very proudly entered the forestry school as an 18-year-old and telling them that the reason that I wanted to study botany was because I wanted to know why asters and goldenrod looked so beautiful together. These are these amazing displays of this bright, chrome yellow and deep purple of New England aster, and they look stunning together. And the two plants so often intermingle rather than living apart from one another, and I wanted to know why that was. I thought that surely in the order and the harmony of the universe, there would be an explanation for why they looked so beautiful together. And I was told that that was not science, that if I was interested in beauty, I should go to art school. Which was really demoralizing as a freshman, but I came to understand that question wasn’t going to be answered by science, that science, as a way of knowing, explicitly sets aside our emotions, our aesthetic reactions to things. We have to analyze them as if they were just pure material, and not matter and spirit together. And, yes, as it turns out, there’s a very good biophysical explanation for why those plants grow together, so it’s a matter of aesthetics and it’s a matter of ecology. Those complimentary colors of purple and gold together, being opposites on the color wheel, they’re so vivid, they actually attract far more pollinators than if those two grew apart from one another. So each of those plants benefits by combining its beauty with the beauty of the other. And that’s a question that science can address, certainly, as well as artists. And I just think that “Why is the world so beautiful?” is a question that we all ought to be embracing.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer, “The Intelligence of Plants”, from the podcast On Being with Krista Tippett (via peatbogbodyhasmoved)

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By LabradoriteKing on Pinterest

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Spirit Bear Possessing a Man's Soul by Inuit artist David Ruben Piqtoukun, 1984

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Pikelets

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Is this how you roll?

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It's important to show that you care. Fuck being nonchalant. Text first, send multiple messages in a row. Tell them what they mean to you, be honest about how you feel. Tell your friends that you love them. Love is a gift that can be given away freely, by anyone and to anyone. Show that you care.

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fishies!

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I have been looking at all of these sprites for so long that I have no idea what is good anymore. I think I need more single-stage guys though

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draw it bad and draw it weird and draw it catered only to yourself and draw it wobbly and draw it too small and draw it with the default brush and draw it without using references and draw it and leave it unfinished and draw it for the first time and draw it

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Assortment of I Spy backgrounds photographed by: Walter Wick

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African-American cowgirl Nellie Brown, and her horse. Circa 1900 - 1915.

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I met Chu So-so when I was 17. I still remember when I first saw her. It was during a sun shower on campus. I asked her why she didn't carry an umbrella, and she said that she hadn't listened to the weather report. I was struck by her vivaciousness and openness. It felt intimate, and made me want to look at her again. But she had already disappeared, like the sun shower.

MAGGIE CHEUNG & CHERIE CHUNG as Nancy & So-so LAST ROMANCE dir. Yonfan, 1988

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genuinely in tears over this fucking video

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Phil Davies

"The Egret was in shadow and the background was in full sun"

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Window Reflections - Kristie Bretzke , 2024.

American , b. 1978 -

oil on linen panel , 20 x 16 in.

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Here's some paintings I've done of people looking at screens. These are all available as prints on Inprnt: Art Prints by Ollie Jones - INPRNT I'm also selling a limited edition print of my piece 'Producer' at Black Dragon Press: Producer – Black Dragon Press