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[purplebuddhaquotes]

“Some people say home is where you come from. But I think it’s a place you need to find, like it’s scattered and you pick pieces of it up along the way.”

—

Katie Kacvinsky

[thequotejournals]

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”

— Josephine Hart, Damage

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.”

— Andrea Gibson

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality is above all else a variable. With a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.”

— Margaret Halsey

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”

— Anna Landers

[books-n-quotes]

“You’re always haunted by the idea you’re wasting your life.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

[radsturbate]

[books-n-quotes]

“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

[chihue]

I keep thinking about ways to kill myself. Every single day. I work excessively to keep myself busy, but I always circle back to maybe I’ll walk into traffic today. Maybe I’ll jump off one of the near by cliffs. Maybe I’ll bleed to death.

How do you tell your husband that the only thing you’ve done all day is his laundry and thought of bashing your head against the wall repeatedly til everything goes quiet?

Some days I am stronger. This isn’t one of those days.

[cervicks-deactivated20141013]

not killing myself is a personal achievement but you cant really brag about that at dinner parties

[sunsuhage]

[memewhore]

[professorspork]

#this single photo here validates the existence of the selfie stick I SWEAR TO GOD

[diary-of-a-chinese-kid]

“Mom, can I bring the rice cooker to college?”

[nevermindtheb0ll0cks]

[chachibetch-deactivated20141214]

Heavy…. heavy,

[phoenixresurrected]

Woah

[kaiserneko]

… There’s a very important conversation to be had there.

[catgotyoururl-deactivated201411]

If this is being brought up shouldn’t we also addressing the age of the politicians in places of power tho?

[redpepprflakes]

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[crimeshetyped]

NEVER LET THIS POST DIE

[zafojones]

Circus Tree: Six individual sycamore trees were shaped, bent, and braided to form this.

[gwydtheunusual]

Actually pretty easy. Trees don’t reject tissue from other trees in the same family. You bend the tree to another tree when it is a sapling, scrape off the bark on both trees where they touch, add some damp sphagnum moss around them to keep everything slightly moist and bind them together.  Then wait a few years- The trees will have grown together.  You can use a similar technique to graft a lemon branch or a lime branch or even both- onto an orange tree and have one tree that has all three fruits. Frankentrees.

[beautifuloutlier]

As a biologist I can clearly state that plants are fucking weird and you should probably be slightly afraid of them.

On that note! At the university (UBC) located in town, the Agriculture students were told by their teacher that a tree flipped upside down would die. So they took an excavator and flipped the tree upside down. And it’s still growing. But the branches are now the roots, and the roots are now these super gnarly looking branches. Be afraid.

[reallifescomedyrelief]

But Vi, how can you mention that and NOT post a picture? D:

[source]

[sashiscorner]

I am both amazed and horrified of nature as we all should be

[jadedsoggy]

I love how trees are like “fuck it, I’ll deal” at literally everything. Forest fire? Cool, my seeds’ll finally grow. Upside down? Branches, suck, roots, leave. What’s this new branch? Eh, welcome to the tree buddy.

[rooksandravens]

I need to be more like tree

[azzandra]

I continue to fear and respect out arboreal overlords.

[fuckyeahwomenprotesting]

what kind of professor did these students have that they needed to prove him wrong so badly that they literally dug up a tree, flipped it and put it back in the ground?

[sailorofships]

Sounds like y’all’ve never heard about the Tree of 40 Fruits. Well, it’s exactly as it sounds. Sam Van Aken, an artist based in New York, decided to try his hand at grafting (e.g. the process by which you attach the branches of a different tree to a host tree).

As artists are inclined to do he decided to push some limits and over the course of a few years he grafted over 40 different fruit onto the host “ including almond, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach and plum varieties.”

It has a fruiting period lasting from July to October and this is what it looks like when blossoming.

Shit’s tight yo.

Also we have a group called the Guerrilla Grafters. A group who started in San Fransisco with the goal of grafting fruiting branches onto non-fruiting trees of the same type.

Most cities have fruit trees that simply don’t produce fruit because having all these would be a mess and inadvertently providing unregulated food to people comes with a lot of legal risks I suppose. These grafters seem to think otherwise and have taken it upon themselves to try and bring fruit trees back to urban areas.

[dangerbooze]

HOLY SHIT

[purplebuddhaproject]

[untillion-deactivated20180801]

Some young child: *screaming outside* Me with no context: Girl me too