stream of life

 

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The same stream of life that runs through the world 
runs through my veins night and day in rhythmic measure. 

It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flowers.

—Rabindranath Tagore

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properties of water

 

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Lee Chee Wai is a self taught photographer whose work delicately documents man’s relationship with nature. His series ‘Water’ looks at the element in its myriad forms against the landscape of his homeland, Malaysia.


In ‘Water’, Wai explores the many ways that this element ebbs and flows. Wai explains that for him, “The element of water is feminine, soft and flexible. It can manifest many faces, from rain to mist, rivers to sea, ripples to reflections.” 

Utilising extreme long exposure and infrared light, he illustrates the different forms that water takes. Tides breaking against a jetty are still, and the flow of rivers become a blur. The high contrast of the water in these black and white images helps delineates ripples, oil slicks and the insects and sunlight that dance atop them.

—Rosie Flanagan, for Ignant

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Diatom Microscopy

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The wafer like object featured above is a diatom.

It was taken from a water sample in the Gulf of Maine and is seen here edge on, as observed through a microscope — think of viewing a galaxy edgewise in a telescope. 

A diatom is an aquatic, photosynthetic algae. 
This one is about 100 microns across; approximately the width of a human hair.

Aquatic plants constitute 10 percent of the Earth’s biomass and may produce as much as 50 percent of the Earth’s oxygen. 

Diatoms may also be very significant in the field of nanotechnology; they produce micro-scale valves that may, someday, be components in solar panels on our roofs.

These little creatures appear in the fossil record as far back as the Jurassic Period – more than 144 million years ago.

—John Stetson

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hush

 

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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of the oceans. 

–Kahlil Gibran 

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traveller

 

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Rivers are roads which move,  
and which carry us whither we desire to go.

 

—Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) 
 


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in(finite

    

 

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My whole life is mine, but whoever says so
will deprive me, for it is infinite.

The ripple of water, the shade of the sky
are mine; it is still the same, my life.

No desire opens me: I am full,
I never close myself with refusal-
in the rythm of my daily soul
I do not desire-I am moved;

by being moved I exert my empire,
making the dreams of night real:
into my body at the bottom of the water
I attract the beyonds of mirrors...


—Rainer Maria Rilke

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the Universe is singing

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My grandma told me that the Universe is singing in the snowflakes, the raindrops, in the trees, the water, and all Creation. Physicists call this holistic holographic universe. 

Lakotas call it Taku Wakan Skan Skan/Mitakuye Oyasin, which means everything is connected and related in divine rhythm, vibration. Remember the Lakotas know that the song sings the singer. The Spirit sings the song.

—Basil Braveheart

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Tanakit Suwanyangyaun photo

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