[autumnalsonata-deactivated20190]

Sara Teasdale, from The Collected Poems: “The India Wharf”

[floriental]

[artist-vangogh]

Branch with Leaves, Vincent van Gogh

Medium: pencil,paper

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“Don’t listen to yourself. Listen to the advice you give others.”

— Michael Lottner

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

“What would your good do if evil didn’t exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?”

— Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

[auchenai]

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”

— — John Muir

[freelance-philosopher]

“There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon.”

— Henry David Thoreau

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

“Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”

— David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

[indiaanegra]

Bianca Gerasia

https://www.instagram.com/biancagerasia/

[arpeggia]

Isamu Sawa - Without Water, 2017

““Without water plants wither and die. But even in death their beauty lingers in a moment of fleeting, serene imperfection; a delicate death, preserved forever for those who remain.” Isamu Sawa

Adopting a sophisticated macro photographic technique more commonly used in science than art, Without Water is a series of highly detailed botanical images reminiscent of the plates and sketches of the Georgian botanists. Sawa renders his subjects rich in texture and form, revealing an almost otherworldly beauty.” [via Black Eye Gallery]

[litafficionado]

“[…] now that we’re in a climate emergency, the closer we can get to zero births, the better. I do admire women who decide to not have children for the environment. I think it’s touching and noble and generous. It’s also incredibly sensible. People don’t talk enough about how tiring, boring, enraging, time-consuming, expensive and thankless parenthood is. Why must we keep pretending it’s a joy? Sure, there are delightful elements: children are endearing and fascinating, and if you have some, you get to play with toys again and read children’s books and remember your childhood. But illness, worry, conflict, overcrowding, the relentless cooking, the driving, the loss of privacy, the repression of your own sexuality, the education dilemmas, the lack of employment prospects, and all the wretched insanity of adolescence – these are big deterrents.

You watch people get pregnant and know they’ll be emotionally and intellectually absent for 20 years. Thought, knowledge, adult conversation and vital political action are all put on hold while this needless perpetuation of the species is prioritised. Having babies is a strong impulse, a forgivable one, but it’s also just a habit, a tradition, like weddings or putting butter on popcorn.” -Lucy Ellmann, in an interview 

[comfortablymyself]

“I’m with you. No matter what else you have in your head I’m with you and I love you.”

— Ernest Hemingway

[a-beautiful-word]

“Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed, chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests.”

— John Muir

[heerethere]

ventura, CA 

[philosophybits]

“Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude

[ptq-deactivated20240630-deactiv]

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

— Voltaire (via liberatingreality)

[george-pitts]