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On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty…
Today is such a day.
Rumi (via shaktilover)
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But there is no economic value assigned to the heart of a young girl standing in a grove of redwood trees, feeling not her insignificance, but instead, her own worth. There is no way to measure the necessity of wilderness to the human soul.
http://matadornetwork.com/bnt/what-is-wilderness-worth-to-you/ (via viamontani)
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treehugger: © NBC News The NBC News Facebook page recently shared this interesting photo comparison showing two photos from the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square, one from 2005 and another from March 13, 2013, when the new Pope was elected. It’s a testament to the rapid change in smartphone usage, personal technology norms and consumerism. As they wrote at the time, “What a difference 8 years makes.”  (via Look at all these smartphones! : TreeHugger)

treehugger:

© NBC News

The NBC News Facebook page recently shared this interesting photo comparison showing two photos from the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square, one from 2005 and another from March 13, 2013, when the new Pope was elected.

It’s a testament to the rapid change in smartphone usage, personal technology norms and consumerism. As they wrote at the time, “What a difference 8 years makes.”

 (via Look at all these smartphones! : TreeHugger)

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The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don’t need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Nick Hornby, How to be Good (via pavorst)
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Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt they can’t afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a “disciplinary technique,” and, by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the “disciplinarian culture.” This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.
Noam Chomsky (via loveyourchaos)

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bbook:

Marina Abramovic meets Ulay

“Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.”

This is amazing.

WHEN THEY FELT THE RELATIONSHIP HAD RUN ITS COURSE, THEY DECIDED TO WALK THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA, EACH FROM ONE END, MEETING FOR ONE LAST BIG HUG IN THE MIDDLE AND NEVER SEEING EACH OTHER AGAIN.

THAT IS HOW YOU DO IT.

I invited him to the performance because we shared 12 years of work, but I had no idea he was going to sit. So when he sat in front of me it was really so emotional, everybody could see because it was reflecting everything we went through together. In one of our performances, “The Night Sea Crossing,” we sat across from each other and he could not do it and I could. That’s why I replaced him with the public. I didn’t think he would ever sit in the chair opposite me, so when he did, I broke all the rules. I just thought that in that place at that moment there were no rules. I just needed to hold his hand and feel togetherness in that moment, which was very emotional.

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But for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Yes, it’s true that no single event makes a trend. But the fact is, the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods – all are now more frequent and intense. We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science – and act before it’s too late.
President Obama addresses climate, energy, infrastructure in State of the Union. Read the rest of his speech here. Twitter reactions here.  (via treehugger)
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shygirl364:

Beyonce and Destiny’s Child perform during the Super Bowl XLVII Halftime Show

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louisdreyfus:

“Lemon there is a word, a once special word that’s been tragically co-opted by the romance industrial complex and I would hate to use it here and have you think that I am suggesting any type of romantic sentiment, let alone an invitation to scale bone mountain. It’s a word that comes to us by way of the old high german luba from the latin lubera meaning “to be pleasing”. So I’m going to use this word to describe how I feel about you in the way that our angalosaxin forefathers would have used it in reference to say “hot bowl of bear meet” or “your enemies skull, split”

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