Natalie, 25, she/her

Keep the nightlight on inside the birdhouse in your soul

[blueiscoool]

TIFFANY STUDIOS 'Nautilus' Desk Lamp

Leaded glass, gilt bronze. Base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 634. Circa 1915.

[killyridols]

2.4 by hagan nguyen, 2022, hahnemuhle metallic rag

[transparentoctopus]

Gorge Frederic Watts, after the deluge 1886

[goobersplat]

Violette Stickers “Crystal Sunny Faces”

[vintagewildlife]

Wolves By: Rolf O. Peterson From: Wild, Wild World of Animals: Bears and Other Carnivores 1976

[sonacava]

nona nuclear family :’)

[escapismsworld]

📍Odessa, Ukraine

[geritsel]

Toshi Yoshida - Pinguins, color woodblock prints.

[everythingfox]

Paraglider and black vulture chilling

(via)

[clickbeetle]

i love seeing cardinals and bluejays together i’m always like “hehe.. evil siblings”

[clickbeetle]

this is what i’m all about babyyyyy

[brydeswhale]

They’re not even related. Jays are a type of corvid, like crows and magpies, and Cardinals are a grosbeak.

[watcherscrown]

well you see, they are both birds and they both have fun hats. hope this helps

[antisquared]

[lisaminnci]

We are but wayward leaves, scattered to the air by an indifferent wind.

Over the Garden Wall (2014) 🍁🍂🎃🍂🍁

[forestgreenlesbian]

Water For The People, Paul D’Amato

[biscuitsarenice]

Cuban Painted Snails (Polymita Picta)

“Their colours come from their diet, lichen and mosses rich in minerals that give the shells these stunning colours. They differ according to the particular mix of plants that each snail has been eating.” - David Attenborough

Attenborough‘s Life In Colour

[floridianfireflyfaith]

@onenicebugperday

[itscolossal]

Odd Apples: A New Photo Book Celebrates the Strange and Enchanting Fruit

[itscolossal]

A Striking Stop-Motion Short Creates Uncanny Visual Effects Using Matches

[quasi-normalcy]

I think that, in order to avoid catastrophic global warming, we need to give up one of the most cherished myths of modern society–the idea that future civilization should be faster, more mechanized, harness greater amounts of power, have greater amounts of production, etc.

I don’t even mean collapse (although that would be a worst-case scenario); I mean that there needs to be a sort of managed decline of capitalist modernity; we have to retire much of industrial civilization whilst (hopefully) preserving its advantages.

The consequence of this is that we will have to do without a lot of the things that we (particularly in the west) take for granted. Right now, for example, we can buy as many clothes as we want; in the future, perhaps, most people will own two or three outfits that are designed for durability. Our cities should be redesigned to be livable without the need to own a car, and we must demand machines that are built to last for years or decades; planned obsolescence must be banned. Right now, we travel by plane; in the future, perhaps we will revert to using trains or boats. Perhaps we will no longer be able to import perishable cargoes from distant parts of the world; we must learn to do without.

Right now, we remain married to a vision of the future that originated in the 19th century, before we understood just how sharp the limitations that nature imposes upon civilization actually are. As such, the visions of a slower, less mechanized, and less materially wealthy world can be tarred as dystopian; but they should not be. Perhaps it should best be regarded as a sort of strategic withdrawal from the “fast” future we were all sold on–until we know how to do it without imperilling our own existence.

The fact of the matter is that civilization is going to decline; that decline can either be managed to catastrophic. I would much rather opt for the former.