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Hani villagers sing multi-voice folk songs for their ancient rice terraces in Honghe prefecture, Yunnan province, in south-west China.

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 https://www.theguardian.com/world/picture/2015/may/15/eyewitness-yunnan-province-china#img-1
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Sequía y sol
Lo árido del color
Lo agobiante del calor

Hojas flotantes
Alfombras crujientes

Lunares de colores
Voluptuosidad de flores

Ansia de perpetuación
En lo más crudo de la estación

Bucares y araguaneyes
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The gum-tree stands by the spring.
I peeled its splitting bark
and found the written track
of a life I could not read. 

Judith Wright
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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

-Leo Tolstoy
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Waitomo - Glowworm Caves (New Zealand)

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"In wildness is the preservation of the world."

- Henry David Thoreau

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Moreno Monti and Matteo Tranchellini

 http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/03/chicken-book-by-moreno-monti-and-matteo-tranchellini/

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Antillean Terrapins (1940) by Thomas Barbour & Archie Carr

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https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89202?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social%20media&utm_campaign=Collection%20Highlights&utm_content=MCZ#page/7/mode/1up
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Curtis's botanical magazine
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https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002719729
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I want to tell what the forests 
were like 

I will have to speak 
in a forgotten language

 -W.S. Merwin
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...meanwhile... from Sandro Bocci on Vimeo.

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“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” 

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust.
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Historia Naturalis Brasiliae - Willem Piso y Georg Marcgraf (1648)
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 https://archive.org/details/marcgrave
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The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (Limbourg brothers, 1485-1489)