May 17 2013
∞
+
∞
“ I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up
— Shane Koyczan, The Student (via loveyourchaos)
(Source: buddhacoffee, via loveyourchaos)
+
∞
“ You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
— Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese” (via arosary)
(via loveyourchaos)
May 14 2013
∞
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth … the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.
—Gary Snyder
(Source: apoetreflects, via reckon)
May 09 2013
∞
May 08 2013
∞
+
∞
Apr 23 2013
∞
Apr 17 2013
∞
9 Basic Principles of Biomimicry
- Nature runs on sunlight.
- Nature uses only the energy it needs.
- Nature fits form to function.
- Nature recycles everything.
- Nature rewards cooperation.
- Nature banks on diversity.
- Nature demands local expertise.
- Nature curbs excesses from within.
- Nature taps the power of limits.
Apr 12 2013
∞
+
∞
Apr 11 2013
∞
“Various processes are known to enhance the ocean’s ability to store carbon. Sperm whales increase the levels of primary production and carbon export to the deep ocean by depositing iron rich faeces into surface waters of the Southern Ocean.
The iron rich faeces causes phytoplankton to grow and take up more carbon from the atmosphere. When the phytoplankton dies, it sinks to the deep ocean and takes the atmospheric carbon with it. By reducing the abundance of sperm whales in the Southern Ocean, whaling has resulted in an extra 2 million tonnes of carbon remaining in the atmosphere each year. “
As if sperm whales weren’t cool enough already.
Source | Journal article | Photo 1 | Photo 2
(via rhamphotheca)
+
∞
Untangling the web: how spiders use their silk – graphic
Spiders produce different types of silk in different glands. Here, we show six types of silk, the name and location of the gland that produces it, and what the spider uses it for.
Graphic by Pete Guest - Click through to see larger
(via: The Guardian UK)
+
∞
DIY Multi Braided Hemp Cord Wish Bracelet Tutorial from Happy Hour Projects here. If you can braid three cords you can make this bracelet. I like it because it looks like a wrap bracelet but is isn’t because Adrianne used end caps. You could even add more braids if you wanted to. I posted Adrianne’s original wish bracelet (the type that is tied on that eventually falls off) here and her wish ankle bracelet here.
