World View

A snake wrapped around the arm of <n>Giaro Giarratana</n>.

An aerial view of a family and buffalo in Central Vietnam, from brand <n>d'Annam</n>.

From the <n>Comme des Garçons Shirt</n> Autumn/Winter 2007 campaign by <n>Ronnie Cooke Newhouse</n> and <n>Stephen Wolstenholme</n>.

A cheetah from the <n>Wild Cat Conservation Centre</n>.

“You are a ghost driving a meat covered skeleton made from stardust riding a rock floating through space. Fear nothing.”

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<n>Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space. Map Projection</n> (1976) by artist <n>Agnes Denes</n>.

Photo by <n>Alfred Gregory</n> of the <n>1953 British Mount Everest expedition</n> team at Camp IV.

Material sketches by artist <n>Alice Fox</n>, created from plant fibers and other natural materials.

A portrait of artist <n>Marcel Duchamp</n>.

Mountain gorilla <n>Ndakasi</n> hugs her caretaker, <n>André Bauma</n>, in <n>Virunga National Park</n>. Photo by <n>James Gifford</n>.

<n>L’Egide (Méduse)</n>, a bronze sculpture by <n>Christophe Charbonnel</n>, 2012.

The wall installation <n>Is that all there is?</n> at the <n>Fresh Hell</n> exhibition. Photo by <n>Martin Tod</n>.

<n>Self Portrait (Interlocking Fingers, No. 6)</n> by <n>John Coplans</n>, 1999.

<n>The Guardian</n> by <n>Ami Vitale</n> shows <n>Lekupania</n> with an orphaned giraffe, <n>Fupi</n>, in Kenya.

A detail from <n>Sandro Botticelli</n>'s painting <n>The Three Graces from Primavera</n> (c. 1485-1487).

A photograph from <n>Duilio Marcante</n>'s <n>This is diving</n>, 1977.

Illustration of a <n>Labyrinth with Centaur</n> from the <n>Olla of Tagliatella</n>, an <n>Etruscan</n> vase. From <n>W. H. Matthews</n>' book.

Silver Plated Shell Plate by <n>Médecine</n>, hand-sculpted from iron in Prague.

Fisherwomen of Ninh Thuan, <n>Vietnam</n>, prepare a large fishing net for an offshore trip.

A boy and a cow nap in Kathmandu, Nepal, 2013. Photo by <n>Steve McCurry</n>.

The 2006 art installation <n>Desnatureza</n> by artist <n>Henrique Oliveira</n>.

Ranger <n>Patrick Karabaranga</n> comforts an orphaned gorilla in <n>Virunga National Park</n>. Photo by <n>Phil Moore</n>.

Artwork by <n>Nicoletta Ceccoli</n> for <n>Rachel McKibbens</n>' book of poems, <n>blud</n>.

An average and a melanistic <n>Barn Owl</n>.

<n>Transfiguration</n> (2008) by artist <n>Robert Gligorov</n>.

Illustration of <n>Narayana, the Seven-Headed Serpent</n> by <n>James Churchward</n> from his 1931 book 'The Children of Mu'.

A man and a deer in Nara, Japan, 1973. Photo by <n>Leon Goldberg</n>.

<n>The Swarm</n> by photographer <n>Kurt Arrigo</n>, an entry in the 2014 <n>National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest</n>.

Burmese priestess <n>Saya Hnin-Mahla</n> kisses a <n>King Cobra</n> in a 1931 still from the film <n>Burma, Land of Pagodas</n>.

<n>Echoes From the Golden Grove</n> (2023), a painting by <n>Annie Stegg Gerard</n>.