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“I became intensely aware of the bond between every particle of creation and myself. I saw beauty I had never known. I sat and looked at the falls and I learned something about love. As I see something of myself in another, I begin to understand \[them\]. In the same way, does it not follow that because I recognize something of myself in a waterfall, a bond is created between the waterfall and me?”

A man reads <n>Mark Anthony</n>'s book <n>Love Notes</n> in a photograph by <n>Nathan Spiteri</n>.

<n>A summer morning</n> (c. 1908) by <n>Rupert Bunny</n>.

Photograph by <n>Estelle Hanania</n> for <n>Simone Rocha</n>.

“Dawn mother of light, why do you appear in such silence? Why do you walk in such peace amidst the forest? Is it that you do not want to awaken the sleepy children of the wilderness?



Awaken, awaken! It’s here! Look how the golden light shines through the trees. See how the flowers open their hands to feel its warm breath. I can hear the sounds and cries that arise from the birds to meet its coming.”

A still from <n>David Hand</n>'s 1937 animated film, <n>Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs</n>.

A detail from the <n>Schiaparelli</n> Spring 2016 Couture collection.

From <n>El Gran Azul. Imagenes de los confines del mundo</n> by <n>Bill Curtsinger</n>.

Two deer in <n>Nara Park</n>, Japan. Photo by <n>Masami hayashi</n>.

"<n>The Sacrifice</n>" (2018), a self-portrait by artist <n>Iness Rychlik</n>.

"<n>Jessie in the Water</n>" (1989), a photograph by <n>Sally Mann</n>.

From <n>Christian Zuber</n>'s '<n>Animals in danger / L'arca di Noe</n>', 1978.

A decorated front door chain by New Zealand-based stylist <n>Spoo</n>.

Image from a <n>Deer Talk Now</n> podcast promoting the <n>EHD-fense™ Water Treatment Kit</n>.

A detail from <n>Calm</n>, a 2018 painting by artist <n>Serge Marshennikov</n>.

“It was early summer; everything was fresh and fair. The grass was green green; the sky was blue, immensely blue; the world was flooded with gracious light.”

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*William Steig, Gorky Rises (1986)*

A close-up of a grapefruit, an image used by artist <n>Sophie Morgan Burns</n>.

A diver swims among jellyfish in <n>Jellyfish Lake</n>, Palau. Photo by <n>David Doubilet</n> for <n>National Geographic</n>.

Digital illustration <n>looking through the trees</n>.

A tiger from <n>Christian Zuber</n>'s 1978 documentary, <n>Animals in danger / L'arca di Noe</n>.

Poem by <n>Amy Rossall</n>. Design by <n>tessa forrest</n>.

<n>René Magritte</n>'s <n>Surrealist</n> painting <n>Our Daily Bread (Le Pain Quotidien)</n>, 1942.

An X-ray of a <n>Statue of the Virgin Mary</n>.