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There’s always a lot of magic, but our way of seeing is very small and we mostly just call it Nature. Why, we are not at all surprised that we can pick an apple in the autumn that was a pink flower in the spring. That’s natural magic and we don’t really notice it.

The Hounds of the Morrigan, by Pat O'Shea (via littlesugarplumfairy)

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It’s so frustrating to not be able to communicate what you need to. Sometimes you want to/need to have heartfelt conversations with people but there’s absolutely no way to do it and you feel like you’re using safe, recycled, lines to have insincere conversations. I wish I could communicate by pressing my heart to another’s and just echo with them. I feel like I’m trapped in my own body.

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That’s how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.

Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants (via wordsnquotes)

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“Spanish Moon Moth” by Mike Howlet

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god: okay tiny animals youre ready to be in the world!!! ants: yipee!! yay!!! god: okay lets make the anteater now ants: the what

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NeoWave Series An ongoing personal art series exploring the style and form of science fiction landscapes and giant abstract monuments.

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Cold night smell coming in the windows. New moon floating white as a rib at the edge of the sky.

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red (via lnviernos)

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i will never not love carl

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This scene very well may have been the catalyst that moved me into science communication.

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I would also be smiling that big if Carl had dropped in on my class when I was younger.

Don’t be afraid to ask simple questions. They can unlock amazing knowledge.

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I especially love this quote by Carl which I believe we really should take to heart:

I find many adults are put off when young children pose scientific questions. Why is the Moon round? the children ask. Why is grass green? What is a dream? How deep can you dig a hole? When is the world’s birthday? Why do we have toes? Too many teachers and parents answer with irritation or ridicule, or quickly move on to something else: ‘What did you expect the Moon to be, square?’ Children soon recognize that somehow this kind of question annoys the grown-ups. A few more experiences like it, and another child has been lost to science. Why adults should pretend to omniscience before 6-year-olds, I can’t for the life of me understand. What’s wrong with admitting that we don’t know something? Is our self-esteem so fragile?