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Iranian Tourism poster (1977).

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Norwegian Forest Cats 

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Andrea Erl

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“The anthropologists Natasha Myers and Carla Hustak argue that the word evolution, which literally means “rolling outward,” doesn’t capture the readiness of organisms to involve themselves in one another’s lives. Myers and Hustak suggest that the word involution—from the word involve—better describes this tendency: a “rolling, curling, turning inward.” In their view, the concept of involution better captures the entangled pushing and pulling of “organisms constantly inventing new ways to live with and alongside one another.” It was their tendency to involve themselves in the lives of others that enabled plants to borrow a root system for fifty million years while they evolved their own. Today, even with their own root systems, almost all plants still depend on mycorrhizal fungi to manage their underground lives. Their involutionary tendencies enabled fungi to borrow a photosynthesizing alga to handle their atmospheric affairs. They still do. Mycorrhizal fungi are not built into plant seeds. Plants and fungi must constantly form and re-form their relationships. Involution is ongoing and extravagant: By associating with one another, all participants wander outside and beyond their prior limits.”

— Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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Poranek w Parku Kampinoskim Morning in Kampinos National Park

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German School St. Sebastian

Ivory, h: 20.5 cm, second half of the 17th century,

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I tried a less realistic art style

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Czerwone wierchy. Tatra mountains. Poland. Photos by S.N.

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Skiing Birchlegs Crossing the Mountain with the Royal Child

by Knud Bergslien

Depiction of Birkebeiner skiers carrying Prince Haakon to safety during the winter of 1206 has become a national Norwegian icon. The prince grew up to be King Haakon IV whose reign marked the end of the period known as the Civil war era in Norway.

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i love you lab grown diamonds i love you slavery-free chocolate i love you community gardens i love you fact that the insulin patent was sold for $1 i love you locally produced meat and milk i love you streets turned into walkable parks i love you little reminders that Things Do Not Have To Be This Way and there are people working to build a better world!!

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mushrooms somewhere in Switzerland Instagram | Etsy shop  

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Uh oh, Jon Horvath

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Whoever is bitten by a werewolf and lives becomes a werewolf himself.

THE WOLF MAN (1941) dir. George Waggner

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The amazing digital art of Roberto F. Castro

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18th century mourning ring, traditionally gifted by close friends and family to the bereaved. This one is inscribed “John Thompson Mar 1773″.