sky full of song

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Ellis Dudgeon - Lagoon of memories - Kaikoura. 1930s-1950s

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rachel hannah

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2011-04-29

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-🐯Our tiger lily from Armenia has bloomed!🐯-

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Little flowers.

Prints//Instagram

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Two tigers,

Chillin’ in the hot tub!

Yes YES! Five feet apart

Cuz they’re not caged.

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I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.

(mary oliver, sleeping in the forest)

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took around 500 pics driving around the olympic peninsula over the weekend! here are a few favorites :)

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not a day goes by, i don't rue

the loss of you

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Rainbow eucalyptus, Road to Hana, Maui, Hawaii

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SUN AND MOON

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[vaspider]

Cool fact but also who preserved them? Where are pumpkins native to? I feel like this is also relevant.

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Native Americans preserved them! They are apparently native to the southwestern part of the U.S. down through Peru.

#im trying to be better about looking up info for myself #better than waiting for it to find me

[vaspider]

Yes, that’s correct. That’s the fact that was missing and I was prompting for. It wasn’t just “people.”

Indigenous land stewardship has been ignored a lot and it should not be.

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Plants that Indigenous Americans domesticated and cultivated before European Colonialism:

Squash (all kinds)

Zucchini

Pumpkins

Corn

Tomatoes

Tomatillo

Potatoes

Cacao (Chocolate)

Vanilla

Rubber Trees

Tobacco

Bell/Chili Peppers

Cassava

Sweet Potato

Peanuts

Basically all Beans

Sunflower (for seeds/oil)

Avocado

Blueberry

Cranberry

Guava

Pineapple

Chia

Papaya

Quinoa

Dragonfruit

Cashew

Pecan

Black Walnut

Maple (syrup)

Agave

Prickly Pear

This is a shortened list.

Another huge one is the Quechua people were already using Quinine derived from the plant Chichona calisaya. They used it as a muscle relaxant, but Quinine was one of the most important medications developed in history, and would be the go-to malaria treatment for hundreds of years.

Indigenous Americans also had domestic dogs, domesticated another species of dog (the now extinct Fuegian Dog, which came from the culpeo), Guinea pigs (an excellent meat animal), domestic turkeys, llamas, alpacas, muscovy ducks, stingless bees, and cochineal beetles (this sounds unimportant but it’s literally still a huge source of red food dye).

We eat food that originated with Indigenous Americans every day. Rubber, Potatoes, Corn and Quinine alone have radically impacted the world. One essential for technology, two HUGE staple food crops, and one critically important medication.

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Thomas Jordan

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Golden Emperor Moth

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Background art for Disney’s Winnie the Pooh