A “howling” grasshopper mouse. (Untamed Americas - NGC)
Not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane - Marcus Aurelius
1950s-1960s: Stuffed wildlife dioramas at the Canadian Museum of Nature.
[::SemAp::]
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — ”Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.
— John Steinbeck, from “In Awe of Words,” The Exonian, 75th anniversary edition, Exeter University (1930)
(Source: earth-song)
Bison skull pile, ca 1870
(L’extermination du bison américain, via La boîte verte)