nature

To the watchtower 😉

#OC #Nature #Video #Loops #FootPath

Silent Sunday 🌿.

#art #mastoart #fediart #nature #digitalart #noai #magic #speedpaint #mushrooms #fantasy #silentsunday

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Toward the Light.

#photography #japan #nature #art #artwork #flower #flowers #花 #写真 #beautiful #beauty #bloomscrolling #landscape #scenery #fantasy #oldlens #filmlike #vintage #retro #ephemeral #healing #calm #lightroom #light #sunlight #oldlens

"For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more; for those who have not, no words of mine can ever describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected." ~ Jane Goodall

#quote #nature #water #plants #WaterLilies

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Thai Giant

#LeafScrolling #Nature #Photography

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Craobh Cinnidh

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/craobh-cinnidh-justin-farrimond.html

This isn't one of my dreamscape images, this is fresh out of the camera. Craobh Cinnidh, the family tree.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Nature #Photography #Art #Print #Forestry #Genealogy #Tree

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📷 #SilentSunday

#FediversalPictures #Kituwah #Nature

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📷 Goldenrod Soldier Beetle, 3:25 PM

#FediversalPictures #Nature

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✨ A Little (About) Joy ✨

During lockdown, we raised #butterflies and it was amazing! Seeing new life emerge brought beauty to a quiet time. It was a reminder that #nature sparks wonder even at home.

Have you ever raised a pet or plant that surprised you?

#intro #artist #AAPI

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8 yr old Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The butterflies he had tended as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. When he released them into the wild, they would fly right back to him. Was it possible they actually remembered him?

Jo wrote a letter to an entomologist at Georgetown University, Dr. Martha Weiss. He asked if she could help him design an experiment, and she said yes.

Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70% of them still avoided the scent. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis, yet the memory survived anyway. Then he bred them.

The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to lavender their grandmother had been taught to fear.

Jo presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.

A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/ten-old-butterfly-researcher-discovers-184204801.html

#Butterflies #Science #Nature #Memory

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🦌 Arctic reindeer are the only mammals whose eyes change color seasonally - gold in summer, deep blue in winter. They physically restructure a nanoscale photonic mirror inside their eyes to match Arctic twilight wavelengths, boosting night vision during months of polar darkness. #science #nature https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.1002

NEWLY PUBLISHED BOOK TO READ

My latest book - THE WILD - takes the view that "anarchy", often extrapolated in and through the historical, socially-derived politics of anarchism, should instead be characterized on a naturalistic and queer basis as "the wild" (in much the same way as Kropotkin observed nature and came up with the principle of "mutual aid" in fact).

Through thirteen chapters this idea is then teased out, explained and extrapolated as something both ethical and political that is contrary to patriarchal, capitalist, industrial and technological human civilization as it has developed.

As such, this book is both a call to the wild (and to the truth and reality of the wild) and to the assertion that in feralness there is an authenticity of the mutual co-existence of all things to be found.

The book can be downloaded FOR FREE from the link below in multiple formats or read online. It can also be read to you via text to speech on that page.

https://archive.org/details/the-wild-ethics-and-anti-politics

#politics #anarchism #anarchy #wild #wildlife #feral #nature #books #writing #queer #nihilism #indigenous #civilization

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I send thanks to the buyer from Italy who purchased a canvas print of

Heading Home -- https://fineartamerica.com/featured/heading-home-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

May the artwork take you to a place of serenity and peace.

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #fedigiftshop #birds #nature #sunset #ocean #beach #pacific #oregon #peace #flying #sale

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She was just an ordinary person which meant that, if she were going to work toward her dreams, she wouldn't start out with a multi-million dollar "loan" from dad.

She'd have to work, and persist, experience frustration and disappointment, fall down, and get up again. But it would also mean that she would deserve every bit of her success.

Dreamcatcher framed print -- https://fineartamerica.com/featured/dreamcatcher-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #zion #utah #dreams #beauty #nature

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Can anyone recommend a #PeerTube instance for a #wildlife & #nature video channel I'd like to set up for a local non-profit.

I've had a look at https://joinpeertube.org/instances Local.Earth doesn't seem to be working any more, and I can't really find anything after a couple of hours of looking

Boosts welcomed, thank you! 🙏

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Fediverse

EDIT
I've decided to go with hosting our own PeerTube instance, focussed initially on video hosting our partner's video work -- huge thank you to @beartrix for recommendation for Weingärtner IT. Wish me luck!

https://weingaertner-it.de/index.php/produkt-kategorie/fediverse-instances/?lang=en

Path sniffing, I suspect deer 😁

#Dog #Dogs #DogsOfLoops #Hiking #And #Music#OC #Nature #Video #Loops#July #Southern #Finland #Archipelago #AlandIslands

Big news!

I'm running for nomination as one of COPE's candidates for Vancouver's Park Board in the October elections. I've spent a lot of time photographing nature in city's parks, and I want to ensure our nature is well taken care of.

The nomination requires fundraising, so I'm asking any BC residents who want progressive, nature-minded politics in Vancouver to please donate to my run through this link!

https://www.copevancouver.ca/donatetoguerric

#Vancouver #VanPoli #BCPoli #BritishColumbia #Nature

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Some interesting fungosities arising from the Earth in the middle of Pierce Road, Harvard Forest.

Note: "Fungosity" is actually a word. See https://tinyurl.com/3254pxsm.

#fungus #forest #fungi #mushrooms #saprophytes #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #forests

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#science #nature #gardening
Birmingham Botanical Gardens have been caring for a native plant of Mexico for the last ten years. It has been growing in their greenhouse which dates back to the 19th century. But now it has produced a flower spike so large that roof panels have had to be removed to allow the 18ft spike to poke out. This flower signifies the death of the plant, which only flowers once in its lifetime, giving the flower the name 'death bloom'. https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/plants-first-flower-is-death-bloom-so-tall-it-went-through-roof/

Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?

A simple scaling law brings order to the chaos of flowing water, rock, and sediment. New findings have extended the law even further.

by Natalie Wolchover

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-rivers-so-mathematical-20260810/

Books about Geophysics at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=geophysics

#nature #geophysics

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