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“People can’t anticipate how much they’ll miss the natural world until they are deprived of it. I have read about submarine crewmen who haunt the sonar room, listening to whale songs and colonies of snapping shrimp. Submarine captains dispense “periscope liberty” - a chance to gaze at clouds and birds and coastlines - and remind themselves that the natural world still exists. I once met a man who told me that after landing in Christchurch, New Zealand, after a winter at the South Pole research station, he and his companions spent a couple of days just wandering around staring in awe at flowers and trees. At one point, one of them spotted a woman pushing a stroller. “A baby!” he shouted, and they all rushed across the street to see. The woman turned the stroller and ran. Nothing tops space as a barren, unnatural environment. Astronauts who had no prior interest in gardening spend hours tending experimental greenhouses. “They are our love,” said cosmonaut Vladislav Volkov of the tiny flax plants - with which they shared the confines of Salyut 1, the first Soviet space station. At least in orbit, you can look out the window and see the natural world below. On a Mars mission, once astronauts lose sight of Earth, they’ll be nothing to see outside the window. “You’ll be bathed in permanent sunlight, so you won’t eve see any stars,” astronaut Andy Thomas explained to me. “All you’ll see is black.””

— Mary Roach. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void.  (via hummeline)

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dalton highway, alaska

august 2020

#woah #obsessed #someday I promise

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Totally Fucked Up (1993) dir. Gregg Araki 

#teenage apocalypse trilogy #smoking cw

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Aleksandr Blok, 20th Century Russian Poetry: Silver and Steel, from 'A Blizzard Sweeps the Streets..., tr. Geoffrey Thurley

#textpic #understand this - you are alone #how sweet are the secrets of the cold #look deep into the cold current #where everything is young forever

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Krakow, Poland // Michał Skarbiński

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Peter Newcombe - ‘Tunnell Hill Farm, Blisworth’. Oil on board, 1979.

Source: abbottandholder-thelist.co.uk

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Some stars from my journals

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Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Athan Anagnostopoulos, from Maria Nephele: A Poem in Two Voices; "The Poet's Song"

#textpic #i hid so much within myself even I myself didn’t know it #secrets

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Endre Penovác  __  a very young cat wondering

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#buffalo 66 #blue

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#textpic #but i do feel strange - almost unearthly #i'll never get used to being alive #it's a mystery #always startled to find i've survived #john steinbeck #journal of a novel: the east of eden letters

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Totally Fucked Up (1993) // dir. Gregg Araki

#nsfw #teenage apocalypse trilogy

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tiagommarinho 

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THE DOOM GENERATION (1995)

Director: Gregg Araki Cinematography: Jim Fealy

#teenage apocalypse trilogy

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#red #textpic #villain #seduced #starkiller #torn apart #lightsaber #rage #patricide

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Against Silence, Frank Bidart

#textpic #before it happened it was never going to happen #after it happened it was always going to happen

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Totally Fucked Up (1993) dir. Gregg Araki

#teenage apocalypse trilogy