wit-ness ...

a⋅bun⋅dance ...

numbers in red ...

i'm writing a book. i've got the page numbers done ...

there is safety in numbers ...

the whole is more than the sum of its parts ...

then ...

( number of fruits per tree ) X ( number of fruiting trees ) = how many number of new fruiting trees ?
can there be safety in numbers ? ...

perspective ...

perspective ( Latin-perspicere to see through ) is a mathematical system for projecting the three-dimensional world onto a two-dimensional surface, which begins with a horizon line, which defines the farthest distance of the background and a central vanishing point, which defines the foreground of the space, in which the artist may arrange figures, objects, subjects, these elements link the science of three-dimensional geometry with the art of illusionistic representation.

light ...

... how light is light ? ... why does light become very big and heavy such as a 1000 year old tree ...

philosophers of science point out that science doesn't answer why questions, it only answers how questions. Science doesn't explain ... science describes.

my explaination would prefer to choose the experience of a photographer, consider the picture posted in "trans time", the image consists of both stationary objects such as the tree bark, the insects in a meeting and the busily moving insects. now you can imagine me using a flashlight (1,10,000/sec) to arrest all movement or use 1/2 sec using available light. so the point being, the stationary items dont have time influence them and the moving subjects influence light. so ones perception and camera setting is the crucial factor in understanding light.

it is said that, If you can't explain something to a six year old, you don't really understand it.

p.s : every atom in the universe is physically bound to all others via two anti-parallel threads twined around each other like strands of DNA.

trans time ...

... in the 1970's while studying unicellular organism and their ability to sequence genes, which should have been a scientific way of proving darwin’s tree of life ...

darwin assumed that organisms passed their genes to their offspring. Instead, what was seen was that some bacteria and some single-celled microorganisms swapped genes across huge distances.

lateral transfer of genes was not the way the tree of life was to be, evolutionary biology had the axe ready to cut down the tree of life further. fungi, amoeba, algae are themselves a product of fusion ...

unicellular organisms make for at least 90% of all species on earth and 80% of them show lateral gene transfer. lateral transfers are seen in plants and animals too, about 14% of all living plant species and about 10% of all animals have been found to be “products of fusion of two separate lineages.”

“downgrading the tree of life doesn’t mean that the theory of evolution is wrong, just that evolution is not as tidy as we would like to believe.”

season 2 ...

we have art in order not to die of the truth ...

monsoon 2 ...

monsoon 1

somewhere ...

somewhere ...

There's a place for us,
Somewhere a place for us.
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us
Somewhere.

There's a time for us,
Some day a time for us,
Time together with time to spare,
Time to learn, time to care,
Some day!

Somewhere.
We'll find a new way of living,
We'll find a way of forgiving
Somewhere . . .

There's a place for us,
A time and place for us.
Hold my hand and we're halfway there.
Hold my hand and I'll take you there
Somehow,
Some day,
Somewhere!

lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, sung by a bird

evening sun ...

the sun orbits the center of the milky way galaxy at a distance of approximately 26,000 light-years from the galactic center, completing one revolution in about 225–250 million years. the orbital speed is 217 km/second ... and all of this is necessary for this simple image ? ... 

potential ...

the unknown potential is far greater than the known potential ....

power of few ...

power of two ...

 

art in nature ...

true art ...

are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling ?

...

eye in the jungle ...

... nil bastardum carborundum !

many more ...

two dots ...

home to some ...

floor ...

hoofprint ...

an ungulate, a hoofed mammal, cervus unicolor, the indian sambar deer.

ancient Indian tale for kids ...

as the deer fled, he ran into some dry grass, and the seed fell into the eye of a wild chicken, and the pain of the seed in the eye of the chicken caused it to fly up against a nest of red ants. alarmed, the red ants flew out to do battle, and in their haste, bit a mongoose. the mongoose ran into a vine of wild fruit and shook several pieces of it on the head of a hermit who sat thinking under a tree. "why did you, o fruit, fall on my head ?" cried the hermit. the fruit answered "we did not wish to fall, a mongoose ran against our vine and threw us down." and the hermit asked, " o mongoose, why did you throw the fruit ?" the mongoose answered "i did not wish to throw down the fruit, but the red ants bit me, and I ran against the vine." the hermit asked, " o ants, why did you bite the mongoose ?" the red ants replied "the hen flew against our nest and angered us." the hermit asked " o hen, why did you fly against the red ants' nest ?" and the hen replied "the seed fell into my eyes and hurt me." and the hermit asked, " o seed, why did you fall into the hen's eyes ?" and the seed replied "the deer shook me down." the hermit said unto the deer, "o deer, why did you shake down the seed ?" the deer answered "i did not wish to do it, but the owl called, frightening me, and i ran." "o owl," asked the hermit, "why did you frighten the deer ?" the owl replied "i called, but as I am accustomed to call, the cricket, too, called " ...

embracing reality ? ...

all species provide at least one function in an ecosystem. each function is an integral part of regulating the species balance, species diversity and species health, all aspects which are intrinsic for the ecosystem as a whole to survive and prosper.

just like a species with high genetic diversity, an ecosystem with high biodiversity may have a greater chance of adapting to environmental change.

embracing diversity ? ...

a good education is an education that is accessible to everyone, and to everyone at the same quality. the result is an equality that we have come to expect in our lives. but we also have come to expect a recognition of diversity, the very antithesis of equality. to provide equal education and exposure to a diverse population thus requires to define precisely what we mean by equality and what we mean by diversity. now, how relavant are the fungi's that we see in the picture ?

green leaf ...

chlorophyll is greek for " green leaf "

words moving up ...

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."

(...)

cycad ...

world distribution of cycadales

overall species diversity peaks at 17˚N and 28˚S, with a minor peak at the equator. there is therefore not a latitudinal diversity gradient towards the equator but towards the tropics.

di·lem·ma ...

1. A situation that requires a choice between options that are or seem equally unfavorable or mutually exclusive.
2. Usage Problem. A problem that seems to defy a satisfactory solution.
3. Logic. An argument that presents two alternatives, each of which has the same consequence.

"soul ?" does a dog have a soul ? how about cockroach ?

"excuse me, I did not mean to criticize your planet"

- Robert Anson Heinlein - Science Fiction Writer

blotch fungi ...

"study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. it will never fail you."

"i believe in god, only i spell it 'nature'."

god is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has been said often by philosophers, that nature is the will of god. and, i prefer to say that nature is the only body of god that we shall ever see. if we wish to know the truth concerning anything, we'll find it in the nature of that thing.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

out there ...

photography is...

"an austere and blazing poetry of the real" - Ansel Adams

"the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision" - Sebastian Smee

"a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality" - Alfred Stieglitz

"the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century" - Sir John Rotherstein

"(a means by which we)...learn to see the ordinary" - David Bailey

"a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ..." - John Szarkowski

a camera is...

"the camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera" - Dorothea Lange

"the camera has interesting ideas of its own" - John Szarkowski.

Julia Child (1912-2004), television chef

"If you're afraid of butter, use cream"

"the only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook"

"life itself is the proper binge."

"everything in moderation, including moderation."