Posts tagged earth

The Overview Effect

watch and learn. this will be my 3,000th post, and i’m glad i saved it in my drafts rather than posting it as soon as i watched the video. it deserves the milestone placeholder.

The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.
Joseph Campbell (via tharfagreinir)

tharfagreinir

this day hushes my heart.

no clamor of mine will jar the sleep-mazed earth from its languor, unfurling blade by blade beneath this tenuous sun, our most patient of sentries. not today. hands cupped; a shrine for frailest joy, while it alights. growth carbonates the air. delight scribbles frissons within body and upon/amid/atop Self, as first sips, then draughts are welcomed home.

likeafieldmouse: Anthony Gerace

likeafieldmouse:

Anthony Gerace

likeafieldmouse

Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,

“You owe me.”

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.

Hafiz (via larmoyante)

larmoyante

You had this expression on your face, like you weren’t quite sure you were supposed to be on Earth.
Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You  (via weaverofstars)

sadnature

Gaia is a tough bitch — a system that has worked for over three billion years without people. This planet’s surface and its atmosphere and environment will continue to evolve long after people and prejudice are gone.
Lynn Margulis

(via lucifelle)

fernsandmoss

6.8 Earthquake. 2001. Olympia, Washington. The effects of an earthquake on a sand-tracing pendulum, discovered by Jason Ward. Seismologists say that the “flower” at the center reflects the higher-frequency waves that arrived first; the outer, larger-amplitude oscillations record the lower-frequency waves that arrived later. “You never think about an earthquake as being artistic — it’s violent and destructive,” Norman MacLeod, president of Gaelic Wolf Consulting in Port Townsend, told ABC News. “But in the middle of all that chaos, this fine, delicate artwork was created.”

6.8 Earthquake. 2001. Olympia, Washington.

The effects of an earthquake on a sand-tracing pendulum, discovered by Jason Ward.

Seismologists say that the “flower” at the center reflects the higher-frequency waves that arrived first; the outer, larger-amplitude oscillations record the lower-frequency waves that arrived later.

“You never think about an earthquake as being artistic — it’s violent and destructive,” Norman MacLeod, president of Gaelic Wolf Consulting in Port Townsend, told ABC News. “But in the middle of all that chaos, this fine, delicate artwork was created.”

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.
Wendell Berry (via serpentinitic)

for-all-mankind:

dannysauruswrecks:

This just blows my mind. And to think that there is no end… Wow.

And, what’s even better, we think the universe is a hundred million times bigger than we previously thought, and since the high estimates say we can only observe about 10% of it…it’s stunning.

Perspective, Pamela. See also: wonder.

carving-the-world