Nature by Pontus Rudolfson
“ Many films diminish us. They cheapen us, masturbate our senses, hammer us with shabby thrills, diminish the value of life. Some few films evoke the wonderment of life’s experience, and those I consider a form of prayer. Not prayer “to” anyone or anything, but prayer “about” everyone and everything. I believe prayer that makes requests is pointless. What will be, will be. But I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love someone, or do a good thing. Those prayers validate existence and snatch it away from meaningless routine. ”
— Roger Ebert (via azspot)(via melaniehamlett)
The densly populated mouth
of the Ganges River
will be threatened
with massive storm tides
and flooding
that will claim
an increasing number of lives.
(AFP)
A green turtle glides
over a wasteland
of dead coral
near Kanton island
in the central Pacific.
Before water temperatures spiked here
in 2002-03,
this reef
was brimming with life.
(Brian Skerry)
Extreme droughts will plague
sub-Saharan Africa
as a result of climate change.
This March 2006 photo
shows children standing
behind the corpse
of one of thousands of livestock that
have died from thirst
in southern Ethiopia.
(Reuters)
The drought in Australia is the worst
in over 100 years.
Over half
the continent’s farmland
is suffering.
(Getty Images)
The peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is losing its glacier.
The top photo shows the peak
in February 1993.
The bottom picture is
from February 2000.
(AFP)
Summer in Greenland:
vegetation is
spreading
farther
than it has
for centuries.
(Toke T. Høye)
Near Ilulissat
in Greenland: glaciers
around the island
are melting
at an alarming rate.
(DDP)
This glacier,
located in New Zealand’s
Mount Cook National Park,
is shrinking by
500
meters
every year.
(DPA)
