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fiskarna: untitled by Simple Village Girl on Flickr.

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:46:19 -0400

untitled by Simple Village Girl on Flickr.

silfarione: “There is something instinctive about the moment...

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:45:23 -0400

“There is something instinctive about the moment you choose to ‘take’ a photograph. It’s not the result of thought or reflection. The strength of the composition is always born of the instant of the decision. It reminds me of archery. There is the tension of the bow and the free flight of the arrow.” —Edouard Boubat

stereobone: waterlostinthesea: Hay on Wye- A town in Wales...

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:23:38 -0400

stereobone:

waterlostinthesea:

Hay on Wye- A town in Wales known as the “town of bookshops”

Containing over 30 bookstores, specializing in rare books, used books, books of all types, it is a major destination for bibliophiles.

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Fri, 24 May 2013 22:21:31 -0400

Pressed spring blossoms to remember March and April at Lark...

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:20:38 -0400

Pressed spring blossoms to remember March and April at Lark About.

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lavandula: by erwin blumenfeld, 1938

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:15:18 -0400

lavandula:

by erwin blumenfeld, 1938

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:14:33 -0400

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”

- Virginia Woolf (via indicio)

lostsplendor: “Clifton College boys helping to move the library...

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:13:13 -0400

lostsplendor:

“Clifton College boys helping to move the library during the war.” Bristol, World War II (by brizzle born and bred)

lavandula: Tim Walker for Vogue U.K

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:44:29 -0400

lavandula:

Tim Walker for Vogue U.K

"It was the strangest thing, but for the first time in a long time I almost felt serene."

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:14:27 -0400

““It was the strangest thing, but for the first time in a long time I almost felt serene.””

- Bill Bryson, from The Lost Continent (via mirroir)

ovaire: La Jeune Martyre (The Young Martyr) by Paul Hippolyte...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:18:47 -0400

ovaire:

La Jeune Martyre (The Young Martyr) by Paul Hippolyte Delaroche

"We tend to think animals are lower than us, but all the scientists in the world couldn’t design and..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:34:48 -0400

“We tend to think animals are lower than us, but all the scientists in the world couldn’t design and operate a bumblebee’s wing. We can’t jump or run very fast, and we can’t carry vast weights like an ant can. We can’t see in the dark and we can’t fly except crammed in a noisy tube like sardines, which doesn’t count. Humans compared to animals are almost totally deaf, and we can’t smell a fart in an elevator by their standards. We are finite and separate, and neurotic, while the consciousness of an animal is at peace and eternal. We strive and go crazy to become more important. Animals rest and sleep and enjoy the company of each other. We think we have evolved upwards from animals but we have lost almost all of their qualities and abilities. The idea that animals don’t have consciousness or that they don’t have a soul is rather crass. It shows a lack of consciousness. They talk, they have families, they feel things, they act individually or together to solve problems, they often care of their young as a tribal unit. They play, they travel, and medicate themselves when they get sick. They cry when others in the herd die, they know about us humans. Of course they have a soul, a very pristine one. We humans are only now attempting with the recent rise in consciousness to achieve the soul that animals have naturally.”

- Stuart Wilde (via ihatenietzsche)

colourthysoul: Warwick Goble - Flowers and Fairies

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:33:04 -0400

colourthysoul:

Warwick Goble - Flowers and Fairies

venusmilk: Konstanty BrandelLeda, 1908 (source)

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:32:39 -0400

venusmilk:

Konstanty Brandel
Leda, 1908

(source)

I wish time could pass more quickly. I feel I’m suffocating under the forces of routine and...

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:30:00 -0400

I wish time could pass more quickly. I feel I’m suffocating under the forces of routine and tension, lots of family tension. I wish I could be away from it all. I have all this free time now that I’ve quit my job, but it’s worth nothing because I feel sluggish the time. I haven’t read more than two books and have painted nothing so far. Maybe if you’ve been living in a place for too long, long enough for you to have nowhere to run from things, your brain becomes dulled by the lack of change. I feel a bit like the desert around me, everything is the same wherever you look and nothing grows out of that.

UGH

“The Virgin Suicides” by Lena C. Emery

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:00:16 -0400

“The Virgin Suicides” by Lena C. Emery

weissewiese: Bas Jan Ader, from The Elements

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:54:34 -0400

weissewiese:

Bas Jan Ader, from The Elements

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