Old as the hills

Oliver, UK

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[ankura]

Bull moose from a distance. Chugach State Park, Alaska

[apesoformythoughts]

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

…I have swam through libraries and sailed through oceans…

– Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

[the-catholic-herald]

[matchagirl]

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[pwlanier]

ATTRIBUTED TO PHILIP REINAGLE

GOSHAWK ATTACKING A MALLARD

Oil on canvas

Lyon and Turnbull

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Jean-Jacques Grandville (1803 – 1847)

Anthropomorphized comet (illustration from Un Autre Monde, 1844).

[moishe-pipick]

Sami woman in Sweden milking reindeer.

[justdave-deactivated20211107]

“If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

[mun-dane]

“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”

— James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin

[everyautumnsunset]

“One of my favorite Hasidic teachings says that every person should carry two pieces of paper, one in your right hand pocket and the other in your left. On one of the pieces, you write the verse “I am but dust and ashes.” On the other piece, you write a very different verse “Bishvili nivra haolam/For my sake the world was created.” The key to living a successful life is to be guided by both of those statements and keep those two opposing truths in balance.”

— Rabbi Jeffrey Summit

[justhereforthesherlock]

“You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,“ said Aslan. “And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth.”

― C.S. Lewis

[vedurnan-archive]

My longhouse is perfectly constructed. Every morning when I wake up in bed at the far end of my longhouse, I say my syllable. Then I spend all day sitting in bed. By sunset my syllable has traveled to the other end of my longhouse and back, and as it smacks me in the head, I fall asleep. My longhouse is perfectly constructed.

[electronicgallery]

Bowl with Fish, Iran, probably Kashan (late 13th–mid-14th century).

[nobrashfestivity]

Andrei Tarkovsky with his mother, Maria Vishnyakova, 1936

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[the-evil-clergyman]

“The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I” from Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Willy Pogany (1910)

[terranlifeform]

Eastern coachwhip (Masticophus flagellum) in Georgia, U.S.

Noah K. Fields