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Mosquito fish with Neptunia aquatica.

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"Rhapsody in Green." For plants, not by plants, unless I mean proximity to?

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Some pretty leopard moths I’m databasing!

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Some pretty leopard moths I’m databasing!

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How to woo an entomologist:

> Wait 13 - 17 years underground > Climb to the very tip top of a tree > SCREAM 

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Bumble bee mimics have become a secondary fascination of mine as I study real bumble bees. These robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) are fantastic mimics that go so far as to mimic color patterns of endemic species across their geographic distribution!

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cicadas at pitt rivers museum

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Hello!

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Let’s not get rid of the approx. 30 million insects per person. That would end badly.

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Así se reanudó una amistad prohibida que por lo menos una vez se pareció al amor.

Gabriel García Márquez (via de-poesia-y-poetas)

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#ecopoetics

Manifesto of the Third Landscape

The third landscape – an undefined fragment of the planetary garden – designates the total amount of the spaces where man leaves the evolution of the landscape to nature alone. It concerns abandoned urban or rural areas, spaces in transition, brownfield sites, swamps, moors, peat bogs as well as roadsides, shores and riverbanks, railway embankments,… Added to the ensemble of neglected spaces are the pieces of reserved territory. These are the de facto reserves: inaccessible places, mountain tops, uncultivated places, deserts; and the institutional reserves: national parks, regional parks, ‘nature reserves’. This concept, which originated on the occasion of an art commission from the Art and Landscape Centre of Vassivière-en-Limousin, was subsequently developed during the crafting of a landscape charter at the request of regional authorities. In 2004, the phrase – which to French ears echoed the famous pamphlet about the Third Estate issued by Abbot Sieyès during the French Revolution – gave its name to the title of his sensational ‘Manifesto of the Third Landscape’.

COEN (L). Gilles Clément - The planetary gardener (Portrait). In: Magazine ‘Scape, 2007, jg. 2, nr. 2, p. 55-56.

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How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

Virginia Woolf, The Waves  (via ohdreaming)

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that;s write

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It's supposed to be cute and gross

It's supposed to be cute and gross, like throwing up gumballs on the swan ride