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Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
Chief Seattle, 1855
Excerpt from winterstations.com:
Throughout history, humankind has always strived to learn and be inspired by nature to engage in new experiences and provide a better life for themselves and others. Nature is the source of inspiration for architects, artists and scientists. It’s our origin and destination. Including not only external environments such as clouds, trees, sea, mountains and animals, but also buildings, components and materials. By building structures with forms familiar to us, creating two-dimensional graphics, and architecture with thickness, depth and volume, it can complement nature and be part of it. The Epitonium creates a beautiful, functional landscape. This idea causes natural shelters to become a refuge. The design is inspired by epitonium, a type of seashell, and is in great harmony with its location.
“There must be special places on earth for the solemn praise of God, places where this praise is formed into the greatest perfection of which humankind is capable. From such places it can ascend to heaven for the whole church and have an influence on the church’s members; it can awaken the interior life in them and make them zealous for external unanimity.”
-Edith Stein
WWT Slimbridge.
The Robin's red breast and habit of living close to humankind makes it one of our most familiar birds.
Robins are widely distributed in Britain & Ireland throughout the year, from Shetland to the Channel Islands, apart from on the highest mountain tops. Robin breeding numbers increased through the last part of the 20th century and have been fairly stable since, albeit with some fluctuations.
The Robin is both a resident and also a migrant visitor to Britain during the winter months, when birds from northern and eastern Europe help to swell numbers. During particularly cold weather this pugnacious little bird can be seen sharing bird tables with several other Robins, all of them trying to defend the food source they have found. (BTO).
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Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within in.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together. All things connect.
(Chief Seattle)
(photo by Freya)
Smile on Saturday! :-) - Thread
Like most folk I had wanted to capture the new year at dawn but as a consequence of humankind's worst ever invention, 'Karaoke', echoing late into the night, I guess it was never going to happen. So, as I've lost all ability to go about my day in the usual manner, my eyelids still stuck together through whatever it was I was drowning my sorrows in, here's something a little different for a change.
For what it's worth, try to have the best year you can and focus on what really makes you happy, the happiness of other people whose lives you touch depends on it and it's why we're all here after all.
“As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the humankind.” – Cleveland Amory
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These water shots were made while rowing a boat in a lake. No PP or PS done. The camera was only few inches above water.
So many natural elements can be seen in this picture, Water, Sky, Clouds, Bubbles, underwater plants and their roots. water movement, below water lever hull of a nearby boat and it's reflection, splash of paddles, and water bubbles etc. The only missing element is FIRE.
Disaster strikes and destruction happens due to deluge of water
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It is happening now in Japan. named it as Tsunami,
அழவுக்கு அதிகம் என்றால் , அழியுமே உலகு .
at some point humankind will realize, we can't go on like this without destoying the branch we are sitting on, also figuratively. The question is, how many wakeup calls we need.
Taken the morning after sitting out the eye of Hurricane Ian in Cape Coral, Florida. Mentally, today feels just like then....
There are many things that define the connection between humankind and their natural environment. Trees are one of the most potent connections we have with the natural world as they represent the very life force around us. Trees are found across so many different lattitudes and in diverse ecosystems.
This shot on first glance is pretty bleak but I like the story it tells. For me it shows how humankind has built so much that you can see it from so many natural areas.
I wonder what our planet would have looked like 1000 years ago without so much infrastructure 🤔
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"Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect."
Chief Seattle, 1854
Early morning fog fills the valley gracing the air with a misty beauty. I wish these early hours of the day lasted a bit longer as they take my breath away.
Rocky Mtn. National Park
Colorado, USA
Thank you for your visits and comments.
Chapter I: The Fallible Revelation.
"Somewhere along today's modern prairie of debauchery and forgotten ambition lies the essence of humankind's ego. A fine and convoluted mess of what-ifs and soon to be has-beens. This fact remains the unspoken and sad perennial truth of your reluctant ontological overview on reality, doesn't it? And the real truth is.." The vampire explained before slowly willing herself to emerge rather gracefully from the shadowy depths, which had previously only exposed a luminous pair of sleepless eyes. ".. The moment you set foot down here you became inescapably doomed," the creature finished with the tiniest timbre of melancholy invading her somber explanation.
"I'm sorry to say that I spin no greater comedy upon either of you. Consider yourselves unlucky - curse your specific god, if it helps. It is what it is. And remember - this whole farce is Mother Earth's eternal punchline, and she ought to be afforded that credit."
Before the confused pair had digested the gravity of their situation she pounced at them with an indiscriminate and preternatural speed barely visible to the naked eye. Anguish, screams and finally their whimpering pleas came to an end - and as death passed the vampire by like some nameless vapor, which ultimately turns out to be nothing at all, she obtained some semblance of tranquility.
In regards to the unsuspecting couple who in their ultimate blunder had engaged this darling figure in curious pursuit down into those dank and subterranean maintenance tunnels - yes, it was their unmistakable end. As expected the vampire initially felt little to no remorse during any blood repast. By now it could be surmised and perhaps underlined that such a manipulative being had the intellect of a serial killer and the hunting prowess of a panther.
It was an elementary thing to tow victims into their final vista before the butchery began. This barbarous routine rarely demanded these extravagant mind games, but the vampire was nothing if not self-absorbed and theatrical in nature .. And it kept things somewhat interesting.
Or at least that is what she had been continually telling herself for untold centuries of time. Yes, an ocean of time had probably elapsed by now. Though perhaps within some violently repressed section of where the heart formerly pulsed epiphany and the sting of folly in pure nihilism was finally beginning to take its toll on her. No one knew, and certainly none were alive to speak otherwise.
Oh I know, I know, I know
We're only human
But from another planet
Still they call us humankind
Before, I was dying
I feel it inside, now I'm flying
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humankind has not woven the web of life
we are but one thread within it
whatever we do to the web
we do to ourselves
all things are bound together
all things connect
Chief Seattle
seen at Lighthouse Park yesterday evening.
For those who celebrate it and for those who do not, its message is universal. Our different persuasions are just Joseph's coat of many colors.
Wishing the gifts of peace, goodwill, caring and goodness for all of humankind.
Merry Christmas
Happy Holidays
Happy Days
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“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” ~CHIEF SEATTLE
Don't you just hate coming across something like this - these tyres were deliberately thrown over a 6ft fence. Woodthorpe Road, Nottingham.
((Etna Protocol – Southern Slope, November 2193)
At dawn, the crater reveals its true form.
What the night kept hidden, the light slowly unveils: a mineral amphitheatre, where matter seems to speak through subtle, barely hinted tones.
That red, that ochre—unexpected chromatic nuances emerge like veins across the dark surface.
A contrast that no longer seems to belong to this world, now silent, abandoned by humankind.
The large boulder in the center appears like an ancient heart—foreign, yet inevitably bound to the landscape.
The wind is still, but something breathes beneath our feet.
The feeling that every step we take is being welcomed, recorded, and perhaps remembered, is palpable.
In these visible layers, we read the volcano’s memory—a silent chronicle of events that predate all human civilization.
Nothing moves, and yet everything feels alive, waiting.
Perhaps time itself, here, has paused to listen.
We’ve decided to stay a little longer.
The probe is active and records almost imperceptible frequencies—testimony of a world that, while seemingly motionless, has never ceased to change.
Something tells us that what we came to find is not far now.
Materia che respira – Frammento IV
(Protocollo Etna – Cratere della Cisterna, Novembre 2193)
All'alba, il cratere si mostra nella sua vera forma. Ciò che la notte custodiva, la luce rivela lentamente: un anfiteatro minerale, dove la materia sembra parlare attraverso tinte sottili, appena accennate. Quel rosso, quell’ocra, sfumature cromatiche inattese, emergono come venature sulla superficie scura. Un contrasto che non sembra appartenere a questo mondo ormai silenzioso, abbandonato dagli uomini.
Il grande masso al centro appare come un cuore antico, estraneo eppure inevitabilmente legato al paesaggio. Il vento tace, ma qualcosa respira sotto i nostri piedi. La sensazione che ogni nostro passo venga accolto, registrato e forse ricordato è palpabile.
In queste stratificazioni visibili leggiamo la memoria del vulcano, una cronaca silenziosa di eventi che precedono ogni civiltà umana. Nulla si muove, eppure ogni cosa sembra viva, in attesa. Forse il tempo stesso, qui, si è fermato per ascoltare.
Abbiamo deciso di restare ancora un po'. La sonda è attiva e registra frequenze quasi impercettibili, testimonianza di un mondo che, pur apparendo immobile, non ha mai smesso di mutare.
Qualcosa ci dice che ciò che dovevamo trovare non è lontano.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
人間をおちょくっているようなこのポーズが気に入った。
私には都会で奔放に生きるインコにピッタリのポーズに思えた。
I liked this pose which seems to be teasing humans.
It seemed to me the best pose for a parakeet that lives unrestrained in the city.
There are many things that define the connection between humankind and their natural environment. Trees are one of the most potent connections we have with the natural world as they represent the very life force around us. Trees are found across so many different lattitudes and in diverse ecosystems.
This is a side-on view of a jet-engine, displayed at RAF Cosford Museum.
It would be very easy to slump into a sense of despair when time is taken to reflect at the condition of humanity; especially so in light of recent events in Paris...
Even so, when it comes to humanity's thirst for knowledge, and a common advance for development: a sense of awe does begin to permeate at the many wondrous gadgets created by humankind; especially with things, like this jet-engine, that I have very little understanding of; gadgets which have undoubtedly, and unashamedly, advanced areas of our lives, be it: commerce, travel, medicine and healthcare, businesses, leisure, the economy - and whatever else comes to mind!
Go humanity! I think...
405 crossing the frame, 710 running up-down intersecting it, parallel to the mighty Los Angeles River.
Sigma dp0 Quattro, the best camera humankind has ever made, tell me I'm wrong.
*Working Towards a Better World
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. -
Voltaire
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. - Amelia Earhart
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. - Saint Augustine
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Mary Ritter Beard
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. - Lao Tzu
I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world. -
Laurel Clark
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. - St. Augustine
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. - Jawaharial Nehru
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. -
Maya Angelou
Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white. - Mark Jenkins
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo❤️
What is the message of fall to you? The message is laid in the leaves and please read them carefully.
Is it about the change of colour? Or it is about the grace of aging and withering in life?
And we shall not forget the aging in humankind is described as a social problem which causes burden in health care system and hike in taxes. And it is not viewed as a beauty.
Why is it so different between nature and human?
Have a great Sunday!
This is seen at Trout Lake Park Vancouver.
Beatrice has outlined the desperate state of humankind, born of losing touch with life’s meaning, which is known when earth is perceived as a manifestation of heaven. Listening to her, Dante understands clearly, which is itself to be “imparadised,” as he calls it. He is in paradise by virtue of the clarity of her mind and the awareness she awakens in him. Her vision draws him. He responds to its allure freely. He describes it as like seeing the reflection of a candle in a mirror, before turning around to see if the candle is there and, finding it, seeing that the mirror spoke truly. Her eyes are the mirror for the candle of divine love and he himself is close to turning around and seeing that love directly.
--Mark Vernon, Dante’s Divine Comedy, A guide for the spiritual journey
"In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground" ~ Dr. Edward Morbius (Forbidden Planet)
Red-footed Falcon, a rare bird to our shores. I'm posting this image again to show how beautiful he was.
Just heard on our local news that this wonderful little rare visitor to our shores has been found shot dead in Cambridgeshire, police are investigating.
I saw him in my home county of Staffordshire back in July and I'm just horrified at the cruelty of some of the so called 'humankind' and their actions here and abroad.
Poor little thing was only in his 1st year of life and it was hoped he would stay here and possibly even breed.
Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato’s cave, still reveling, its age-old habit, in mere images of the truth. But being educated by photographs is not like being educated by older, more artisanal images. For one thing, there are a great many more images around, claiming our attention. The inventory started in 1839 and since then just about everything has been photographed, or so it seems. This very insatiability of the photographing eye changes the terms of confinement in the cave, our world. In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing. Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads—as an anthology of images.
Susan Sontag wrote this fifty years ago.
She died in 2004, a few months after Flickr launched.
If she were only with us now, to see how unregenerate photography remains. Even more so, it seems to me.
If she could see how Flickr has further darkened our cave, what would she say? What would she tell those who care about photography as she knew it to be, to do?
Where are the cracks, Leonard? Where does the light get in?
This is a drop of tree sap that hangs suspended in a tiny spider web. I had never seen anything like this before and was immediately touched by the beauty of this scene. I probably never would've noticed it if I hadn't been looking for things to photograph with my macro converters.
The sap comes from a tremendous tree inside a protected area of old growth forest, a very small area.
According to Wikipedia, "an old-growth forest is a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance and thereby exhibits unique ecological features and might be classified as a climax community."
I think such forests are quite possibly the most precious and beautiful jewels on this planet. They take thousands of years to mature. They are the cathedrals of life in so many ways, and always have been.
Wikipedia: "It is estimated that one half of Western Europe's forests were cleared before the Middle Ages, and that 90% of the old-growth forests that existed in the contiguous United States in the 1600s have been cleared."
Humankind continues to spread and the virgin forests seem to be doomed. The grief of it is more than we can allow ourselves to feel. Really. So that's what I thought of when I photographed this drop of sap ... the grief of the world's ancient tree communities who know they are doomed and whose tears fall silently into tiny spider webs.
All the natural beauty on this and all worlds is a reflection of the real LIFE beauty of our Planet. We must all do what little or much we can to try to help humankind become a worthy planetary steward, and get away of the reckless destruction we have wreaked on this planet, all its life-forms and, ultimately, on us.
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Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.
- Gary Snyder
The series which I'm closing today has been about the essential elements and about how us, the human species have been using them since primordial times. From the rudimentary economic activities of gathering and hunting, humankind has moved to using the natural elements in increasingly more complex combinations. In this process markets have served to facilitate exchanges and improve the overall efficiency of production and consumption. In parallel ever more sophisticated infrastructures have been set up to respond to the human needs. Huge water reservoirs started to be built in the rising urban concentrations since about 2000 years ago. In modern societies it has become central the need to develop powerful energy infrastructures. Throughout human history the diversification of energy sources has allowed to substitute and augment human labour. Some of the main transformations brought by the industrial revolution were precisely connected to this process of finding new energy sources. Today the pressure of rising consumption worldwide together with global warming of at least 2C until 2050 has placed the search for new energy technologies as a central challenge. The planet resilience has limits. Will we be able to find a regeneration path?
Giovanni Cesare Testa c.1630-1655
Half-human and half-horse, centaurs are a classical emblem of the struggle between humankind’s rational and animalistic sides. Perrier’s centaur is inspired by the ancient Greek marble sculpture showing the beast teased by Eros (Cupid), winged god of love.
The light from the heavens, that celestial tapestry of stars and galaxies, has long been a source of wonder and contemplation for humankind. As we gaze up into the night sky, we can't help but ponder what lies beyond our earthly realm. Is there life out there? Are there civilizations, worlds, and mysteries waiting to be discovered? Have we been visited by life from other places in our galaxy? It's a question that stirs our imagination and fuels our exploration of the cosmos. The light from distant stars, twinkling like cosmic lanterns, beckons us to venture forth and seek answers to the enigmatic questions that fill our minds. It reminds us of the infinite possibilities that exist beyond our terrestrial boundaries, inviting us to reach for the stars and unlock the secrets of the universe.
Frogmore
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" In the last few hundred years
Some people lost their place on earth
They never had a chance
To stay just like they were "
" En los últimos cientos de años.
Algunas personas perdieron su lugar en la tierra
Ellos nunca tuvieron una oportunidad
Quedarse como estaban..."
if humankind ever makes the leap to a space-faring species, i wonder what will religion be like?
what is the religion of a people born in space? you cant extinguish religion, it fills a gaping maw in the human 'makeup'. we need to feel connected to something deeper, more magnificent than ourselves. religion is the calcified artifact of spirituality. we require religion for a moral bearing, if spirituality is anchoring upon a distant teleological endpoint, be it a perfect unity, a dissolution of the self, a natural path (?), a technological transcendence, religion is the methodology that accretes along that viewpoint. it is structure, ritual, boundaries, seperateness from the without. it is exposition and definition of the 'conception'.
you cannot extinguish religion, it is a consequence, a by-product of us. religosity wanes, however, as competing orthodoxies are dismantled or fall apart under the weight of natural inconsistencies. there is no perfect atheist. their atheism becomes its own structure. the hedonist becomes their own imperfect god.
i would suspect that the spiritual yearning would be greater in a space-faring culture. the wide expanse of null space would trigger a voracious spiritual hunger. the enclosed reality of space-faring would give rise to an intense clanish or communal experience that would feed the construction of a religious structure. no other groups to provide resistance, feedback, or cross-polination of spiritual concepts. no outside restraints. a bacterial culture gone wild .
spirituality (a basic human need for the greater, the more magnificent, the deeper) kicks it off, then religion accretes around it, like a coral reef. religion defines the path to the divine (whether that be a perfect unity, a creative principle, a dissolution of the self (ala siddahartha) or even the myth that science will reveal the natural world - and what is 'outside' the path, the unbelievers, the hells of the weak, ignorant, or irrelevant. eventually religion becomes a moral regulation and a political authority - and the spiritual origin is lost, like flesh from a fossil.
The masks,themselves, have their origin in antiquity when the faces of the Gods were covered with masks, to symbolise death and rebirth. Over the course of history, humankind was constantly torn between a better spiritual life and what were taken to be baser instincts-casually trivialised as the fight of good and evil. This conflict also forms background to Venetian Carnival, channelling the power of evil and making the constant battle between good and evil visible, for a limited timeframe and in specific context. It is for this reason that the real Venetian masks are not shrill, colourful and picturesque, but rather ugly, comic and sometime surreal-after all they were supposed to represent man's darker impulses. Seen, in this way , the Venetians are not hiding behind their masks, but rather revealing the true identity of the malign powers that reside within.
Маски имеют древнее происхождение, когда лица Богов были покрыты масками, символизируя смерть и перерождение. На протяжении истории человечество постоянно разрывалось между духовной жизнью и тем, что воспринималось как низшие инстинкты - борьба добра и зла. Этот конфликт также является фоном венецианского карнавала, направляя силу зла и делая видимой постоянную борьбу между добром и злом в течение ограниченного периода времени и в определенном контексте. Именно по этой причине настоящие венецианские маски не пронзительны и живописны, а скорее уродливы и комичны - ведь они должны представлять более темные импульсы человека. Видимо, таким образом, венецианцы не прячутся за своими масками, а скорее раскрывают истинную личность злонамеренных сил, которые находятся внутри.
Robin
Erithacus rubecula The Robin's red breast and habit of living close to humankind makes it one of our most familiar birds.
Robins are widely distributed in Britain & Ireland throughout the year, from Shetland to the Channel Islands, apart from on the highest mountain tops. Robin breeding numbers increased through the last part of the 20th century and have been fairly stable since, albeit with some fluctuations.
The Robin is both a resident and also a migrant visitor to Britain during the winter months, when birds from northern and eastern Europe help to swell numbers.