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Mother of 2
Lover of all
Friend to Mother Nature
Child of the Universe
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Thoughts have been looming on my horizon the like of which I have never seen—I don’t want to say a word about them, I want to preserve an unruffled calm in myself. It seems I shall have to live several years longer. Oh, my friend sometimes the realization runs through my head that I am actually living a supremely dangerous life: for I belong among those machines that can explode! I can’t emphasize that strongly enough. The intensities of my feeling make me shudder and laugh aloud.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters (via violentwavesofemotion)
This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression—and with all this yet to die.
Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death (via 33113)
(Source: human-voices)
In a hundred years everybody here - me included - will have disappeared from the face of the earth and turned into ashes or dust. A weird thought, but everything in front of me starts to seem unreal, like a gust of wind could blow it all away.
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via floatingonatidalwave)
(Source: franche-ment)
African forest elephants decline by 62% in 10 years
BBC: Forest elephant numbers have decreased by 62% across Central Africa over the last 10 years, according to a study published in the scientific journal PLoS One.
The analysis supports fears that African forest elephants are heading for extinction. Conservationists say “effective, rapid, multi-level action is imperative” to save the elephants.
You are an extension of Non-Physical Source Energy, and you have come here with great eagerness and purpose. You intended to explore Earth’s perfect balance of contrast for the purpose of moving life beyond what it has been before.
Esther and Jerry Hicks (via nirvikalpa)
You are an extension of Non-Physical Source Energy, and you have come here with great eagerness and purpose. You intended to explore Earth’s perfect balance of contrast for the purpose of moving life beyond what it has been before.
Esther and Jerry Hicks (via nirvikalpa)
In love you have loosened yourself like sea water; I can scarcely measure the sky’s most spacious eyes and I lean down to your mouth to kiss the earth.
Pablo Neruda (via fernsandmoss)
Discover why you’re important, then refuse to settle for anyone who doesn’t completely agree.
Fisher Amelie, Thomas & January
(via her0inchic)
No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training…what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
Within the chaos of our shame and disappointment and rage there is meaning, and within that meaning is the possibility of rescue.
Steve Almond, Tiny Beautiful Things (via hashpe)
(Source: sweetannasour)
“Wildlife crime is now the most urgent threat to three of the world’s best-loved species—elephants, rhinos and tigers.
The global value of illegal wildlife trade is between $7.8 and $10 billion per year.
I AM NOT MEDICINE
At least one rhino is killed every day due to the mistaken belief that rhino horn can cure diseases. The main market is now in Vietnam where there is a newly emerged belief that rhino horn cures cancer. Rhino horn is also used in other traditional Asian medicine to treat a variety of ailments including fever and various blood disorders. It is also used by wealthy Asian as a cure for hangovers.
I AM NOT A TRINKET
Tens of thousands of elephants are killed every year for their ivory tusks. In 1989, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) banned the international trade in ivory. However, there are still some thriving but unregulated domestic ivory markets in a number of countries, which fuel an illegal international trade.
I AM NOT A RUG
Every part of the tiger—from whisker to tail—is traded in illegal wildlife markets. Poaching is the most immediate threat to wild tigers. In relentless demand, their parts are used for traditional medicine, folk remedies, and increasingly as a status symbol among wealthy Asians.”
(Source: theawakenedstate)
A fantastic guerrilla stunt in downtown Vancouver. A giant plastic six-pack ring is tangled on a dolphin sculpture.
Plastics are a serious problem in our oceans - with terrible consequences for marine species, that get entangled often die as a result.
Learn more about the campaign by Plastic Pollution Coalition at http://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/
ADVOCACY: YOU’RE DOING IT RIGHT
Ships to sail directly over the north pole by 2050, scientists say
Ships should be able to sail directly over the north pole by the middle of this century, considerably reducing the costs of trade between Europe and China but posing new economic, strategic and environmental challenges for governments, according to scientists.
The dramatic reduction in the thickness and extent of late summer sea ice that has taken place in each of the last seven years has already made it possible for some ice-strengthened ships to travel across the north of Russia via the “northern sea route”. Last year a total of 46 ships made the trans-Arctic passage, mostly escorted at considerable cost by Russian icebreakers.
But by 2050, say Laurence C. Smith and Scott R. Stephenson at the University of California in the journal PNAS on Monday, ordinary vessels should be able to travel easily along the northern sea route, and moderately ice-strengthened ships should be able to take the shortest possible route between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, passing over the pole itself. The easiest time would be in September, when annual sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean is at its lowest extent.
