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roberts-island · 13 hours
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the only reason why ten year old girls are destroying stupidly overpriced products at sephora to make “skincare smoothies” is because they aren’t being given access to a yard with a variety of mud, sticks, rocks, puddles, and old ceramic planters to make potions in. the children yearn for the apothecary
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roberts-island · 13 hours
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One thing I've unfortunately learned from gardening, hiking and wildlife ID groups on Facebook is that the average person has no idea that "invasive" specifically means when something non-native is ecologically harmful. A whole whole lot of people think it literally just means a "pest" in any context at all, so I catch people in the USA describing our own hornworms, poison oak, even raccoons as "invasive." They just hear news stories about "invasive wildlife" and that it's damaging something and all they think is "oh, this term means when an animal or plant inconveniences me and is hard to get rid of."
I can fully see how that mental connection works and it's really not all their fault. The word does not on its own really tell you how it's meant to be used. That, and a lot of people just don't understand the difference between what matters for the ecosystem and what digs up their store bought unnatural flower cultivars.
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roberts-island · 1 day
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an expert analysis of my five day old chicks
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my body, a seed
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roberts-island · 2 days
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“A sculpture of a female figure with horns, carrying two lanterns and hidden in a forested area of High Park does not appear to have been created for any nefarious purpose.”
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roberts-island · 3 days
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Did you guys know about club moss? It’s a bryophyte that grows on the forest floor and makes tiny forests! Pictured (I think, still learning ID): interrupted clubmoss and prickly tree clubmoss.
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roberts-island · 6 days
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Today is cancelled. Let’s go get back in bed.
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roberts-island · 7 days
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roberts-island · 8 days
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There’s no way..
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roberts-island · 13 days
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they hated this poor herb so fucking bad
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roberts-island · 14 days
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Undulatus Asperitas clouds seen over New Hampshire (2023)
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roberts-island · 14 days
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hey don’t cry. trees grow out of the ground.
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roberts-island · 15 days
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photography by natalia drepina
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roberts-island · 15 days
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girls when they get overstimulated in the grocery store
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roberts-island · 17 days
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roberts-island · 18 days
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roberts-island · 19 days
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