I love this Earth. I love being able to enjoy and explore its wonders. I am grateful for all it has to share with us. I am grateful for the life it's given me and the endless lessons it has taught me and continues to teach me, for all of the love it pours into me, my heart, my soul. I am grateful that this and many other parts still stand unburned. I am terrified for the parts that are burning, for the parts that have already been reduced to pure charcoal and ashes. This can't be the future of our home. We can't continue to let this happen. Here is a list of trusted charities if you are able to help even just a smidge: • The Amazon Conservation Team https://www.amazonteam.org/crisis-situation-in-brazilian-amazon/ • The Amazon Conservation Association https://www.amazonconservation.org/news/index.html • The Rainforest Trust https://www.rainforesttrust.org • The Rainforest Foundation https://rainforestfoundation.org/fires-in-the-brazilian-amazon-and-indigenous-people/ I'm trying look forward to a future where if I even have kids, all of the place where these pictures were taken will remain the same, maybe even lusher. (at Planet Earth) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1rVtcilpx7h9Gn9ITZJpi1YomhEoCqzz-c-mY0/?igshid=16u9gi84puz0p

The Amazon forest is a hotspot of biodiversity in flora and fauna. It holds millions of species that are unique in the world and extends to impressive 7,000,00 square meters across nine nations. Peru alone contains 13% of that forest, the biggest chunk of which crosses the Peruvian Andes in the region of San Martin.

As impressive as the Amazon rainforest is, it is equally important for the global climate. Cut down its trees and you will be destroying some of the most efficient carbon filters on our planet along with its repository of forest services for local tribes and communities. Unfortunately, this is exactly what outside pressures have done in the past decades. The San Martin region in Peru is no exception.

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Yesterday evening I joined in San Francisco peak's own NODAPL protest in front of city hall. Many members of the Navajo nation had encouraging and thoughtful stories that they shared with us. Their struggles are more than just difficult, they are beating. Their hard work, endurance and love for this land is beautiful and inspiring. The Dakota Access Pipeline is not only a huge health Harvard to its people, but is a great disrespect to their sacred lands. These are the kinds of issues me must not let pass us by! With the environmental direction we may be heading towards as a nation these next handful of years, our job as environmentalists and as citizens of the Earth must be to use our voices, make ourselves heard, and spring into action! And so I ask: EVERYONE IN THE FLAGSTAFF AREA!!! Tonight from 6:00-7:30 pm at the NAU Native American Cultural Center (318 McCreary Dr, Bldg 14) we are having clubs and activists, community members, students and teachers alike come together for an educational session about the Dakota Access Pipeline. We will ask ourselves and share ideas as to what we as citizens of Arizona can do to help in this action. Please join us this evening with any donations you can contribute to our Standing Rock protesters! It will be a cold winter for them, so any warm clothes, food and camping supplies is a blessed help. Thank you in advance to everyone for your support! .......................................................... #nodapl #nodakotaaccesspipeline #standingrock #istandwithstandingrock #navajonation #sacredland #waterislife #youcantdrinkoil #nomoreoil #keepitinthesoil #nomorefossilfuels (at Flagstaff City Hall)

do you ever just smell an old perfume, or hear an old song, or pass an old hangout spot and kinda break inside for a couple minutes

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A Gardener’s Dream victorian conservatory

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Ohara Koson (1877-1945)   小原古邨

Water Lily, 1920′s

Glissements progressifs du plaisir (1974) // Yves Klein (1960)

O V E R L O O K I N G H-3 by Jake Hyatt

Me and my dog Pandora, adopted from the street

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Bob Dylan in his Greenwich Village apartment, 1964.

America: our education system needs to improve!

American education: we need another standardized test and more homework!

Finland: actually, we became one of the worlds' best education systems by getting rid of homework and standardized tests - also, we pay our teachers better than you.

China: same

Belgium: same

American education: better make it two more standardized tests.

Truth is Beauty by Marco Cochrane

One of the most eye-catching artworks at this year’s Burning Man festival was a 55-feet tall sculpture of a woman in a beautifully elegant pose. Truth is Beauty is the second of three sculptures in a series called The Bliss Project by artist Marco Cochrane. Constructed of welded steel rods and balls and covered in stainless steel mesh skin, the massive sculpture had interactive lighting effects that made it constantly change.