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oh my god

everyone needs to see this video at least once in their life

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cheese24k

audible-smiles

we bred wolves until they were dumb enough that they needed us and now we film them while laughing about how dumb they are and I kind of love it

the noises omg

kimblewick

He sounds like a sad wookie

johnfen

In every important way we are such secrets from each other, and I do believe that there is a separate language in each of us, also a separate aesthetics and a separate jurisprudence. Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable - which we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live. We take fortuitous resemblances among us to be actual likeness, because those around us have also fallen heir to the same customs, trade in the same coin, acknowledge, more or less, the same notions of decency and sanity. But all that really just allows us to coexist with the inviolable, untraversable, and utterly vast spaces between us.

Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

#currently reading

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penamerican

"There is no end to the evil in ourselves, just as there is no end to the good. It’s a matter of choice. We struggle to climb, or we struggle to fall. The thing is to discover which way we’re going." ―Daphne du Maurier, born on this day in 1907

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penamerican

"I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all"--Richard Wright

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seabois

Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

Anthony Marra, A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena (via jaded-mandarin)

Source: seabois

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swamp-songs

things i need u to please know right now:

bad days don’t last forever
napping is never a crime
all the cells in ur body are working so hard to keep u healthy and happy and they love u very much
also dogs, they love u very much
instant hot chocolate takes 2 minutes to make and requires no culinary expertise please indulge urself
u are a part of this world
and a very important part
don’t doubt that for a single second

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nubbsgalore

when michael nichols first photographed forest elephants in the lowland forests of the central african republic in 1991, he only caught fleeting moments of them, and at great peril. these sensitive giants were so afraid of ivory poachers hunting them down that they thundered off at the slightest hint of human activity.

it took him 16 years to encounter a heard of 600 savannah elephants who were not fearful of humans. he would end up living with them for two years in kenya’s samburu national reserve, where he came to understand their complex relationships and the depth of their intelligence and compassion (click pics for more).

he recounts, for example, a family mourning the death of a female and other matriarchs approaching and surround the corpse, touching it with their trunks and swaying back and forth. “they go to the corpse and they won’t leave it,” he said. “even when it’s just bones. once a year they’ll visit the bones and hold them with their trunk. i would call that mourning” (sixth photo).

“these are the most caring and sentient creatures on earth, yet they suffer so horribly at the hand of man,” he adds. while in chad, nichols witnessed the massacre of forest elephants, the smaller and more elusive cousins of the better known savanna elephants, whose denser, pinker tusks fetch 90,000 dollars a pair on the black market.

forest elephant numbers have declined by two thirds in the last decade due to poaching, leaving only 20,000 left. ivory poachers are now killing a total of 22,000 african elephants a year, which means they are on course to be extinct within the decade.

says nichols, elephants “cannot be terrorized and massacred by a world that calls itself civilized. we have to forget about the absurd indulgence of ivory and put our focus and resources into the far more complex problem of how elephants and humans can share land in an overtaxed continent.”

Source: nubbsgalore