Peacock Spider by Jurgen Otto, Flickr | via Newsweek Researchers at various institutes and universities all over the world decided to study how the structure of these scales could contain “nature's smallest

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The plaintive song of the humpback whale can travel for great distances underwater. PHOTOGRAPH BY PAUL NICKLEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE "Humpback whales are known for their magical songs, which

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Upper Yosemite Falls, Photographer - Ian Parker Rainbows reveal the way One becomes Many Light dancing through water, through a diamond, through an embodiment - are we not each a living crystalline Suncatcher?

Ever so lonely Ever so lonely without you Ever so lonely Sink into your eyes and all I see Love is an ocean And you for me Sink into your eyes Your eyes Are all I see Your love is an ocean An ocean refuses

"Snow was falling so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness." Quote: Mary Oliver | Image credit: Not available

*Photo Credit not available: Great Horned Owl "Beauty makes presence shine. It brings out elegance and dignity and has a confidence, an effortlessness that is not labored or forced. The fluency and

"A smaller place with which we resonate is more important than a great place of pilgrimage, where one is only a visitor." Vaclav Cilek, from To Breathe with Birds: A Book of Landscapes | Photo,

*Visionary Art by Jan Betts One by one I've been turning off the lights, blowing out the candles, and turning more deeply within to honor this glorious Season of Holiness and Wonder. Not the external season

Grand Canyon National Park | Stock Photograph Any wind will tell you it is the long view that counts. Terry Tempest Williams, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

"Even mountains hang on strings. The 'isness' of things is miraculous: that there is something rather than nothing." John O'Donohue Image: Torres Del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Argentina

When Someone Deeply Listens To You "When someone deeply listens to you it is like holding out a dented cup you've had since childhood and watching it full up with cold, fresh water. When it balances

Image credit:Macbook Air HD Wallpaper Imagine what worlds will look like as shared longings and commitment realize(Eyes) the dream is dawning. Through eyes of wonder and delight, the expansion of perception

Steemit isn't a place I'd have expected to find myself, but a great idea was posited amongst like-minded friends, and it felt inspiring, new, and challenging to stretch into exploring this platform as