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Verd is a 53 year old guy from Waiting, OHIO, USA

Looking for peace. "The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears"

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  • Flickr Photo Download: natural geometry

    Rated Dec 17 • 1 review • nature, geometry, plants • flickr.com




    A little study of

    Natural Geometry











    "It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives.
    Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds."

    Black Elk



    The sacred tree of which Black Elk spoke long ago is the tree of awareness that has been given to all of us. Far removed from the soil as most of us are, we are all people of the earth. Our roots reach back beyond the asphalt and concrete, down deeper than any building foundation. They reach back to the very dawn of creation.
    Hidden in our hearts are levels of awareness we have forgotten. Like great reservoirs they lie just beneath the surface, waiting to be tapped, waiting for their chance to gush to the surface and remind us of who we really are. We can all see, hear, smell, taste, touch, and feel much more than we do. The roots of the sacred tree are as much our birthright as the American Indian's or any other people who have walked the earth. They only wait to be rediscovered.


    Tom Brown Jr., with Brandt Morgan. Tom Brown's Field Guide: Living with the Earth. 1984. Berkley Books, ISBN 0-425-09147-3
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    Flickr Photo Download: natural geometry

  • BBC - Earth News - How superswarms of krill gather

    Rated Oct 12 • 3 reviews • nature • bbc.co.uk



    A super swarm of krill



    A superswarm of krill located by echosounder (swarm shown in red)
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    BBC - Earth News - How superswarms of krill gather

  • Apitherapy News: Neonicotinoids May Be Responsible Bee...

    Rated Sep 14 • 1 review • environment, nature, bees • blogspot.com



    "Neonicotinoids May Be Responsible Bee Deaths
    Are Toxins Killing The Bees?

    Al Meyerhoff, Hartford Courant (USA), 8/4/2008

    It's likely that most people have never heard of Gaucho. And no, it's not a South American cowboy. I'm talking about a pesticide.

    There is increasing reason to believe that Gaucho and other members of a family of highly toxic chemicals â€" neonicotinoids â€" may be responsible for the deaths of billions of honeybees worldwide. Some scientists believe that these pesticides, which are applied to seeds, travel systemically through the plant and leave residues that contaminate the pollen, resulting in bee death or paralysis.

    The French refer to the effect as "mad bee disease" and in 1999 were the first to ban the use of these chemicals, which are currently only marketed by Bayer (the aspirin people) under the trade names Gaucho and Poncho. Germany followed suit this year, and its agricultural research institute said it concluded that the poisoning of the bees was because of the rub-off of the pesticide clothianidin (that's Pancho) from corn seeds.

    So why did the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2002 grant an "emergency" exemption allowing increased use of Gaucho â€" typically invoked during a major infestation â€" when only a few beetles were found in blueberries? Why did the agency also grant a "conditional" registration for its close relative, Pancho, allowing the chemical on the market with only partial testing? And why is the agency, hiding behind a curtain of "trade secrets," still refusing to disclose whether the additional tests required of companies in such cases were conducted and, if so, with what results?... "
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    Apitherapy News: Neonicotinoids May Be Responsible Bee Deaths

  • Pesticides blamed for killing bees - Telegraph

    Rated Sep 14 • 1 review • environment, nature, bees • telegraph.co.uk




    Pestiside causing bee colony collapse?




    Now a new study by the insect research charity Buglife and the Soil Association has claimed the decline was caused in part by a group of pesticides called neonicotinoids.

    The "systemic" chemical, that kills unwanted insects by getting into the cell of the plant, is widely used on farms in Britain for crops like oilseed rape and the production of pot plants.

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    Pesticides blamed for killing bees - Telegraph

  • Portfolio Natural - nature photography fine art prints in...

    Rated Aug 24 • 5 reviews • nature, desert • portfolionatural.com






    Mahmood Darwish: Under Siege

    Under Siege

    Here on the slopes of hills, facing the dusk and the cannon of time
    Close to the gardens of broken shadows,
    We do what prisoners do,
    And what the jobless do:
    We cultivate hope.

    ***
    A country preparing for dawn. We grow less intelligent
    For we closely watch the hour of victory:
    No night in our night lit up by the shelling
    Our enemies are watchful and light the light for us
    In the darkness of cellars.

    ***
    Here there is no "I".
    Here Adam remembers the dust of his clay.

    ***
    On the verge of death, he says:
    I have no trace left to lose:
    Free I am so close to my liberty. My future lies in my own hand.
    Soon I shall penetrate my life,
    I shall be born free and parentless,
    And as my name I shall choose azure letters...

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    Portfolio Natural - nature photography fine art prints in limited and numbered editions

  • Frugal & Natural Pest Control: Fruit Flies & Ants Be...

    Rated Aug 01 • 37 reviews • nature • passionatehomemaking.com




    Fruit Fly Trap
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    Frugal & Natural Pest Control: Fruit Flies & Ants Be Gone! - Passionate Homemaking

  • Woman on a tree with her daughters by Barry Lategan -...

    Rated May 23 2009 • 1 review • nature, water • lensmodern.com




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    Woman on a tree with her daughters by Barry Lategan - Picture Library Image

  • Lighthouses and waves during VERY stormy weather

    Rated May 18 2009 • 13 reviews • nature, video, sea, waves ocean • youtube.com



    You can either be a lighthouse, and stand firmly against the storm
    or be a bamboo, and bend with the winds

    either methods takes strong roots, a firm foundation, to weather the storm



    "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
    --- Henry David Thoreau

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    Lighthouses and waves during VERY stormy weather

  • dandelion02 by ~impatienss on deviantART

    Rated Apr 26 2009 • 1 review • nature, flowers, wishes • deviantart.com




    Make a wish!




    And let your heart float on the breezes

    .
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    dandelion02 by ~impatienss on deviantART

  • The Gladness of Nature - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios...

    Rated Apr 16 2009 • 1 review • nature, poetry, poets, poems • poets.org

    The Gladness of Nature
    by William Cullen Bryant

    Is this a time to be cloudy and sad,
    When our mother Nature laughs around;
    When even the deep blue heavens look glad,
    And gladness breathes from the blossoming ground?

    There are notes of joy from the hang-bird and wren,
    And the gossip of swallows through all the sky;
    The ground-squirrel gaily chirps by his den,
    And the wilding bee hums merrily by.

    The clouds are at play in the azure space
    And their shadows at play on the bright-green vale,
    And here they stretch to the frolic chase,
    And there they roll on the easy gale.

    There's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower,
    There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree,
    There's a smile on the fruit, and a smile on the flower,
    And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea.

    And look at the broad-faced sun, how he smiles
    On the dewy earth that smiles in his ray,
    On the leaping waters and gay young isles;
    Ay, look, and he'll smile thy gloom away.
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    The Gladness of Nature - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios &More