Nature inspired things

In the past few years, more and more architects have started integrating nature into their work. Also known as biophilic design, this concept is designed to boost the way people connect with the environment. This can be used at the city scale, but also just within a building. The main focus is to create a healthy, environment-focused setting.

The <n>DREAM ring</n> by <n>МЕЧТАЙ</n>.

That we can never, ever create anything truly beautiful with a heart heavy of pressure and with our own high expectations on ourselves. A stressful mind is not a highway to accomplish something faster. We just block the way for the energy and inspiration to flow free. Learning to let go is a lifetime lesson I guess. But I have seen how life can just switch in the same moment as we let go of fear of not doing and being enough. All we ever wanted to be, we already are.

Hoge kwaliteit moswanden | Duurzaam & uniek | Groene Luxe

A <n>Fractal Pythagoras Tree</n> and <n>Alternating Pythagoras Tree</n> from a 1979 textbook.

The poem <n>Today I Was Happy, So I Made This Poem</n> by <n>James Wright</n>.

Cao Bang Crocodile newt Nikolay A Poyarkov The new crocodile newt Tylototriton koliaen has distinctive orange tips to its toes (Credit: Nikolay A Poyarkov) Despite its fearsome name, this knobbly little amphibian is a shy creature. It was discovered hiding under rocks in a slow-flowing stream on a farm in a forested mountain pass in northeastern Vietnam. Named Tylototriton koliaensis after the Kolia Organic farm where it was found in the Kolia Mountain Pass in Vietnam's Cao Bang province, close to the border with China, the amphibian has a series of bony ridges and knob-like warts running down its back, much like a crocodile. But that is where the similarities end – these diminutive amphibians grow to just 7.3cm (2.8in) in the larger females. They are almost entirely black in colour, except for the tips of their toes and fingers, which are bright orange. They also have small orange patches on their palms and a stripe of orange on the underside of their tails.  Crocodile newts are among the most threatened amphibia

The poem <n>I Love to Sit in Silence</n> by an unknown author.