Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) leaps out of sea onto ice, Antarctica.
Picture: DOUG ALLAN/NPL/REX (via Freeze Frame: Doug Allan’s images of wildlife in some of the world’s coldest places - Telegraph)
Reading positions by Kate Beaton (now on Tumblr)
Repurposed stuff we like: Television as bookshelf. Reading as a sub for watching.
(Source: simplicityupsidedown)
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
— Winston Churchill (via julie911)
(via quote-book)
"Nature is older than man, and she is still far from perfect. Her summers do not always start promptly on June 21. Her bugs and beetles and other insects often go beyond her obvious intentions, devouring the leaves and buds with which she has adorned her countryside. After the land has remained too dry for too long, she sends relieving rains. But frequently they come in torrents so violent that they do more harm than good. Over the years, however, nature keeps going on in her imperfect way, and the result — in spite of her many mistakes — is a continuing miracle. It would be folly for an individual to seek to do better — to do better than to go on in his own imperfect way, making his mistakes, riding out the rough and bewildering, exciting and beautiful storm of life until the day he dies."
— Oscar Hammerstein II, in an essay for NPR’s This I Believe
A Harp Seal smiles for the camera at Iles de la Madeleine in East Canada. Picture: Keren Su / Lonely Planet / Caters News
(via allcreatures)
