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There’s a species of solitary mason bees that make these pretty little nests for their larvae out of flower petals.

Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest—thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the under wood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.

Beau Taplin  (via whismical)

Too powerful not to reblog… For all those people who have fought, or are still fighting. Who got through it, or who didn’t. Reblog it for them.

"Pink Bubbles" cultivar from the Iris genus. (x). Made by Transparent-Flowers.

In the realm of genetic anomalies found in living organisms perhaps none is more visually striking than bilateral gynandromorphism, a condition where an animal or insect contains both male and female characteristics, evenly split, right down the middle. While cases have been reported in lobsters, crabs and even in birds, it seems butterflies and moths lucked out with the visual splendor of having both male and female wings as a result of the anomaly. [via.]

Vincent Van Gogh, Cypresses (details)

1889

Green Wheat Fields, Van Gogh

“I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they’re like little flowers. I’ve always said that if you have a name for something, like ‘cut’ or ‘bruise,’ people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don’t know what it is, it can be very beautiful.”

David Lynch  (via accordeon-macabre)

Cara Thayer and Louie Van Patten’s Confrontational Paintings of Intimacy

COCOROSIE

MODZIK MAGAZINE

"Flesh was the reason oil paint was invented."

Willem de Kooning  (via gettypubs)

Hyphen, 1999 by Jenny Saville

Kim Hyun-Soo, “Breik”, 2008

Odani Motohiko - Erectro (Bambi), 2003

“Angyali üdvözlet” :. András Jeles, 1984

Lovers I, october 2012

lovers were instructed to write their least favourite thing about each other on their most favourite part of each other