Abandoned by everyone, embraced by nature.

Room in the Villa di Quarto, near Florence, 1873, by Emanuel Stöckler (Austrian, 1819–1893).

In Bernini’s hands, the story of Apollo and Daphne becomes something electric. The marble feels alive, full of movement, tension, and transformation.

"Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible." Sylvia Plath Kaoru Yamada artwork

Gustave Moreau didn’t want his paintings scattered, so he turned his own home into a museum — the one you’re seeing here. A world built by the artist himself. Paris, France 🇫🇷

Au royaume de la perle, Leonard Rosenthal, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 1920

If you made a dollar a sec you’d have $1 million in 12 days, you’d have $1 billion in 32yrs & $1 trillion in 31,710yrs or 5X longer than human civilization. New rightwing thing is acting like there’s an incremental difference between 5X longer than human civilization and 12 days

Sleeping Beauty by German sculptor Louis Sussmann 🏛️ Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

In 2010, Andernach, Germany planted 101 varieties of tomatoes in the town center and told everyone to take whatever they wanted. It was so popular that they did it again, adding beans the next year. Over time, they added onions, fruit trees, lettuce, zucchini, berries, and herbs, all free to the public and maintained by the city. Andernach is now nicknamed the "edible city." And they're not alone. Philadelphia has been doing a version of this since 2007. The Philadelphia Orchard Project has helped establish 67 sites across the city with thousands of food-bearing trees. Baltimore is planting fruit trees on sidewalks. Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, and Asheville all have public urban orchards. A mature apple tree produces 400-500 pounds of fruit per year. A mature pear tree can produce for 75 years. Cities pride themselves on their tree cover. We've decided that trees are important, but we haven't fully decided those trees should feed people yet. Would you support urban fruit trees and vegetables in your city?

An image from the 1917 silent Danish film PEACE ON EARTH

Delphin Enjolras - Just Finishing Reading a Novel, 1910

The Bride of Lammermoor, by English painter John Everett Millais (1878). Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.

"Beneath The Golden Willow" Ed Perkins.

leptis magna, libya

Bc dumb cunts like u thought it meant “it’s warmer now” and not “greenhouse gases heating the atmosphere destabilize the polar vortexes, making extreme weather events more common.” Tho “climate change” is clearly a worse name bc now yall just say “well the climate always changes”

300 years ago the Dark Ages of agriculture arrived in the New World & all but wiped out the intelligently designed food forests that the natives created. It took 200 years of destroying the soil, water, & air with pesticides for our farmers to dip one toe into the renaissance

Villa, a Fountain by the Lake in the foreground (Ferdinand Knab, 1834 - 1902)

Built between 1905 and 1908, Palau de la Música Catalana is one of Barcelona’s great masterpieces of Catalan Modernisme. Its famous inverted stained-glass dome pours natural light into the auditorium, turning the ceiling into a glowing sun above the stage.

French armor, c. 1575