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07/05/2024

Gentlemen, replace your divits!

This isn't AI or Photoshop, but some mind-bending land art by Tanya Preminger!

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07/05/2024

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29/06/2023

Nature is brimming over with diversity within species. It just waits to be observed and reward the observer. It was a pleasure meeting Sylvia A. Earle when she visited Australia a few years back.

Fish are individuals, like cats, dogs, horses and people. I should have understood it before, but it was catalyzed by spending day and night in one area getting to know individual fish. Every fish has its own face and own personality. It’s one of the miracles of life: the enormous capacity for diversity.

Understanding that took living underwater day and night. We got to recognize individual barracuda. Some were more aggressive and some were more shy. You get to see their behaviour and identify them. Not “an angelfish” but “that angelfish” who hangs out there, comes to the window, looks in and you recognize its face. It was a breakthrough.

29/06/2023

Thought for the Day

DESERT BEAUTY

"I’d forgotten how enlivening it could feel, seeing clearly and far. Aridity frees light. It also unleashes grandeur.

The earth here wasn’t cloaked in forest, nor draped in green. Green was pastoral, peaceful, mild.

Desert beauty was “sublime” in the way that the romantic poets had used the word- not peaceful dales but rugged mountain faces, not reassuring but daunting nature, the earth’s skin and haunches, its spines and angles arching prehistorically in sunlight."

~ Julene Bair, The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning

Image Credit: Michael Poliza

11/04/2023

Water lily after rain.

16/03/2023

The brushtail of the are an iconic population and a delight to encounter. Tonight I watched two brushtail and a rat sharing a tree, much to the delight of another couple of passing tourists. When tree were felled to make way for a bus tunnel a few years back, we lobbied for the council to erect more possum boxes to home the displaced animals. We couldn't save the trees, but some boxes were erected. Of course tree hollows are natural homes, nests and hideouts for possums.

21/02/2023

We love the way Sadhguru talks about the natural world and human potential. His guidance is a great source of inspiration.

4,634 Likes, 31 Comments - Sadhguru Space () on Instagram: "A full-fledged life does not mean going out and doing all kinds of exploits in the world. It means allowing yourself to grow to full depth and dimension. Every human being should do this. ~Sadhguru . . . ...

30/01/2023

Landing print in the snow by an owl. 🦉

05/01/2023

We are wather fwond of our swans.

Black Swan (Cygnus atratus): This 142cm (56in) large water bird with mostly black plumage and a red bill is native to Australia, however, they have been introduced into other regions and also re-introduced into New Zealand where it was hunted to extinction. They have historically been collected due to their unique elegance and contrast to the widespread white plumaged swan species. Terrific photo taken by Jón Óskar Hauksson in Iceland.

02/01/2023

This is how armadillos in captivity entertain themselves. Bless.

29/12/2022

Ever found a paper nautilus shell? Here's a young mama octopus still wearing hers. It acts as a bassinet for her to carry her young around.

Baby Argonaut octopus😮😮

The argonauts are a group of pelagic octopuses. They are also called paper nautili, referring to the paper-thin eggcase that females secrete. This structure lacks the gas-filled chambers present in chambered nautilus shells and is not a true cephalopod shell, but rather an evolutionary innovation unique to the genus. [ Wikipedia ]

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