A quote from <n>Fyodor Dostoevsky</n>'s novel <n>Crime and Punishment</n>.

A mother humpback whale and her calf. Photo by <n>Paul Nicklen</n>.

<n>Victória Guerra</n> in <n>Cosmos</n> (2015), directed by <n>Andrzej Zulawski</n>.

Movie poster for the 2023 film <n>Perfect Days</n>, directed by <n>Wim Wenders</n> and starring <n>Koji Yakusho</n>.

A still from the film <n>Star Nation</n> for musician <n>Nick Mulvey</n>.

A <n>dwarf minke whale</n> in the <n>Great Barrier Reef</n>. Photo by <n>Jaxon Roberts</n>, <n>Scott Wilson</n>, and <n>Pablo Cogollos</n>.

A hyperrealist still life painting by Italian artist <n>Luciano Ventrone</n>.

A still from the 1966 film <n>The Face of Another</n>.

You don't *have* a soul—You *are* a soul. What you have is a temporary body.

A <n>Cymbidium orchid</n> by floral artist <n>Brittany Asch</n>.

Low tide over the coral gardens of <n>Ningaloo Reef</n> in Western Australia.

<n>Keith Haring</n> paints a skirt for <n>Grace Jones</n> for her video <n>I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect For You)</n>.

A humpback whale off the coast of Peru. Photo by <n>R. Turner</n> from the 1958 book <n>El mundo de los Mamíferos</n>.

A collage by <n>Maria Popova</n> with a poem by <n>Pico Iyer</n> on <n>Edward Lear</n>'s 1830s <n>Common Crane</n> illustration.

“I'm not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.” ― Pina Bausch

Photograph <n>Orchid</n> (1987) by <n>Robert Mapplethorpe</n>.

<n>Whales</n> (2014) by designer <n>Andrea Minini</n>, from the series <n>Animals in Moiré</n>.

Animals Formed From Moiré Patterns by Designer Andrea Minini — Colossal

Artwork by <n>moonassi</n> for <n>Atmos Magazine</n>, featuring a quote by <n>Ruth H. Robertson</n>.

A film still from <n>Suzaku</n> (1997), directed by <n>Naomi Kawase</n>.

The <n>TWA Airport Terminal</n> in New York, photographed on <n>CineStill 800Tungsten</n> <n>Kodak</n> film.

A minimalist advertisement for <n>Nivea</n> featuring a single red leaf shaped to resemble a pair of lips.

<n>Course</n>, an artwork by <n>Rachel Garrard</n>.

Life: the eternal dance - the cosmic celebration

"It is the fate of modern life that we repeatedly lose touch with nature, the environment, the planet. But we try to regain it again and again." — Hayao Miyazaki

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