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If the landscape actually was what people valued it to be, the global ecosystem would surely collapse. If suburbs were truly only houses, yards and trees selected by the homeowner, if pastures grew only the forages intended by the farmer, if agricultural land grew only crops, if a ditch next to an overpass was simply a ditch

If all the places we think of as "no longer wild" actually were, if the biodiversity we thought was gone actually was gone, life on Earth would not be able to sustain itself. The unintended and random plants, the wild weeds of lost and empty places, they hold us tightly, sustaining the few and meager scraps of symbiotic relationships that keep the Earth alive

The ditch beside the road is no longer a serene wetland. The wetland was bulldozed and destroyed and now it is a ditch, dirty and strewn with garbage. But because nobody looks closely, almost nobody sees...A few rushes and sedges have decided to grow here, there's a clump of stubborn and stunted cattails, and there in the weeds, a thickety willow cradling a blackbird's nest.

Easy to love the pristine wilderness in distant preserves, but will someone love this abused and ugly place? Will someone be moved to protect the wild of the roadside ditch and vacant lot as passionately as they protect the primeval forest?

Easy to see the importance of the Amazon rainforest for the very air in our lungs, but who will see the moss that grows between the bricks in the wall of their run-down apartment and realize, It is your oxygen that I breathe?

I read a paper one time suggesting that, even though the idea of monoculture is harmful through its influence on agricultural practice, monoculture does not actually exist, because in practice the weeds prevent it from becoming a reality.

I was thinking of that again, and wondering what it would be like if the weeds actually obeyed us...

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absolutely loved this segment from the recent connect live, i just had to do some doodles for it!!

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netflix’s The Knight Before Christmas is terrible, probably had a $100 budget, couldn’t be worse. it’s the greatest cinematic masterpiece ever made

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you who swallowed a falling star, o’ heartless man

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Cinderella and Prince Charming dancing in the clouds in these early explorations of the song sequence "So This Is Love" by Mary Blair

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supergirl, you belong to no one but yourself

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was this anyone else's first thought, or

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y'all sleeping on hoffrigg too much </3

stills:

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my saw 4 summary

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/ mark hoffman - saw v 2008

// snow white - snow white 1937

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first signs of spring

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let's play otome dissection ~

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some more stills of Shawnee Smith on the Saw (2004) set, this time having effects applied by key makeup artist Eleanor Sabaduquia.

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We got a real jam going down

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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986)

Please, whatever they offer you, don’t feed the plants!