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Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. In freedom it gives itself unreservedly, abundantly, completely. All the laws on the statutes, all the courts in the universe, cannot tear it from the soil, once love has taken root.
— Emma Goldman (via socialistscum)
(via socialistscum)
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New Purple Crab Species Found
A purple crab stares down the camera in the Philippine island of Palawan (map) in an undated picture. The colorful crustacean, dubbed Insulamon palawanense, is one of four new species in the Insulamon genus described in a recent study.
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“Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest comers. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.”
- Vincent van Gogh, to Theo van Gogh (21 July 1882)
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For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can’t get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep you never want to come up for air. You can’t cheat your first kiss. Trust me, you don’t want to. Cause when you find that right person for a first kiss, it’s everything.
— (via capitainebackfire)
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(Source: iamthewhitebitch, via philphys)
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
-Oscar Wilde
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(Source: icanread)
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Melotte 15
Although it might take a moment to discern, this image is of the magnitude 7.9 open cluster Melotte 15, also known as Collinder 26. It lies within the Heart Nebula (IC 1805) in the constellation Cassiopeia the Queen. Although the nebulosity dominates this image, the two dozen brightest stars belong to the cluster.>/small>by Manuel Fernández Suárez from León, Spain
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Remembering #Jan25: Days of Rage and Dignity. The Egyptian revolution really isn’t over, but the eighteen days of rallying and demonstrating across Egypt starting on 25 January 2011 that ultimately ousted longtime dictator Mubarak deserve an incredible amount of celebration.
Here is a photographic retrospective of those eighteen days, shot by some of the best. I will never fail to be blown away by the images of the demonstrations in Tahrir.
- Yannis Behrakis/Reuters. 1/30/2011.
- Nasser Nasser/AP. 1/25/2011.
- Peter Macdiarmid/Getty. 2/1/2011.
- Lefteris Pitarakis/AP. 2/1/2011.
- Ed Ou/NYT. 2/1/2011.
- Hannibal Hanschke/EPA. 2/2/2011.
- Moises Saman/NYT. 2/11/2011.
- Felipe Trueba/EPA. 2/11/2011.