a work in progress

you said you knew the perfect place to run to. a place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping with life. a place longing to come alive again. its a place for disappearing, you'd said, a place for getting lost... and for getting found

[uwmspeccoll]

Flora and Sylva

Today we present botanical illustrations from our American Geographical Society Library’s set of French natural history books Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle. The books were produced under the direction of Charles d'Orbigny and published in Paris by Renard, Martinet et Cie from 1847-1849 in 13 volumes and 3 illustrated atlases. The hand-colored plates we are featuring today are illustrations of Dahlias, Aechmea, Stapelia, Gloxinia, and Morning Glory (Convolvulaceae) flowers.

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–Sarah, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[blackberrytales-blog]

“Sometimes you meet someone, and it’s so clear that the two of you, on some level belong together. As lovers, or as friends, or as family, or as something entirely different. You just work, whether you understand one another or you’re in love or you’re partners in crime. You meet these people throughout your life, out of nowhere, under the strangest circumstances, and they help you feel alive. I don’t know if that makes me believe in coincidence, or fate, or sheer blind luck, but it definitely makes me believe in something.”

— (via bl-ossomed)

[beishia]

[mondlichty]

[style-gone-wild-deactivated2020]

“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.”

— Maya Angelou

[contemporary-cph]

[50shades]

photo by Nino Munoz

[apt-goals]

layers

[rudygodinez]

Farah Willem, Who Seeks the Infinite One Has Only to Close the Eyes, (2014)

[yimmyayo]

[juilletdeux]

[icefitness]

[indiglojelly]

[mymodernmet]

[itslatingirl]

[thedeathincarnate]

I could stare at you for hours and still discover new beauties in you every second of the day.

you are so wonderful//e.g. (via thedeathincarnate)

[haiisha]

The world has bigger problems than girls kissing girls and boys kissing boys.

(via constantlyrunningfrommyproblems)