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― Anaïs Nin, The diary of Anaïs Nin

Common Frank Bidart banger (from "In the Ruins," in Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016)

I came across Palestinian artist Souad Nasr سعاد نصر today and this painting of her’s immediately reminded of that famous photo of the old Palestinian haja holding onto her olive tree. Souad Nasr painted this more than 30 years ago.

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Illustration of the Great Comet of 1577, from the book Tarcuma-I Cifr al-Cami by Mohammed b. Kamaladdin, 16th century AD.

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Nobuyoshi Araki

Untitled, 1986

Thanks to In Search of Pagan Hollywood

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Nadia Ferroukhi - Taureg women

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Fragments of Glass, a delicate dance between antiquity and opulence. Each inlay whispers tales from Egypt’s Ptolemaic to Roman periods (1st century BCE-1st century CE).

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Many places have a "forest that shouldn't be entered." Even people who are used to working in the mountains feel there is something there. They are suddenly overcome with fear and it becomes the custom to avoid certain places. These places exist. I don't know what is there, but I think they are real . . . The world is more than we can fathom with our five senses. The world doesn't exist just for humans. So I think it is all right to have such things. This is why I think it's a mistake to think about nature from the idea of efficiency, that forests should be preserved because they are essential for human beings . . . I am concerned, because for me the deep forest is connected in some way to the darkness deep in my heart. I feel that if it is erased, then the darkness inside my heart would also disappear, and my existence would grow shallow.

Hayao Miyazaki, “Totoro Was Not Made as a Nostalgia Piece” in Starting Point: 1979-1996