[virgosunleomoonpiscesrising-dea]

[koolthing0]

[geryone]

Lonely Women Make Good Lovers, Keetje Kuipers

[boobookittenartblog]

Foie Graphics

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“It lulls me. The river is like a drug. What I suffer from seems unreal when I come here.”

— Anaïs Nin, from “Delta Of Venus,” originally published c. August 1977

[brunetteg1rl]

mary oliver, upstream

[hostileintent]

[peatbogbodyhasmoved]

“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

[quietvoiced]

[heavensghost]

something I wrote today !

[horrorlesbians]

“Who’s the real you? The person who did something awful, or the one who’s horrified by the awful thing you did? Is one part of you allowed to forgive the other?”

— Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger (via thequotejournals)

[artandchocolate]

Franz Kafka - Diaries

[polkadotmotmot]

Ryan Whelan - Somewhere there’s an open field undisturbed just growing greener, 2020

[hineinihineini-moving]

October by Mary Oliver

[ghiblicentral]

Princess Mononoke (1997), dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[canisalbus]

When the last tree has fallen and the rivers are poison You cannot eat money

[ffc600]

[1/?] Favourite quotes from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo | Grantaire