a thousand turns of tides.

seventeentimesinfinity:

asaka-rei:

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

next up on my Miyazaki education list.

this is one of my favorites!

corsicans:

Us (par Lee Crutchley | Quoteskine)

welp

healthyprettythings:

The Loneliest Whale in the World.
In 2004, The New York Times wrote an article about the loneliest whale in the world. Scientists have been tracking her since 1992 and they discovered the problem:
She isn’t like any other baleen whale. Unlike all other whales, she doesn’t have friends. She doesn’t have a family. She doesn’t belong to any tribe, pack or gang. She doesn’t have a lover. She never had one. Her songs come in groups of two to six calls, lasting for five to six seconds each. But her voice is unlike any other baleen whale. It is unique—while the rest of her kind communicate between 12 and 25hz, she sings at 52hz. You see, that’s precisely the problem. No other whales can hear her. Every one of her desperate calls to communicate remains unanswered. Each cry ignored. And, with every lonely song, she becomes sadder and more frustrated, her notes going deeper in despair as the years go by.
Just imagine that massive mammal, floating alone and singing—too big to connect with any of the beings it passes, feeling paradoxically small in the vast stretches of empty, open ocean.

“A cryptozoologist has suggested that the 52-Hertz whale could even be lonelier than we realize, a hybrid between two different species of whale, or the last survivor of an unidentified species, plying the oceans in a doomed search for another of its kind, singing its broken song.”

break my heart why don’t you

fairy-wren:

Blue-Crowned Motmot (Momotus momota), Trinidad
I was following some manakins when I flushed this Blue-crowned Motmot (kingfisher relative). Motmots love to sit motionless for long periods. He picked a lovely little spot to perch and by contorting myself and my tripod around some trees I was able to capture a few images. The fill flash that I added seemed just right to bring out his wonderful colors. Check out that amazing racket tail too! Motmots are definitely a group of my favorite birds…
Photo/text by Judd Patterson

one of my favorites we saw in costa rica!

"if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed
with
air."

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meditation, nayyirah waheed (via indicaviolet)

(Source: nayyirahwaheed, via physicalgraffitea)

dreadie: