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Marcus Aurelius on the metro

March 26, 2019March 21, 2019 ~ Morgan Conover

Marcus Aurelius on the metro
read a line, ponder
a comical thing
the philosopher on the train
not a old man stroking his hirsute beard
but a young woman
immersed in the radical idea
of mind beyond indulgence.

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“People always tell me not to be extreme. ‘Be reasonable’, they say. But I never felt it did any good to be reasonable about anything in conservation, because what you give away will never come back. Ever. When it comes to saving wilderness, we can’t be extreme enough. To compromise is to lose.”
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Keeping with the orange theme I got going on—here peeps a lil shroom. Please comment if you have an idea of the genus or species! Thinking it's in the Russulaceae family. 🔸 #mushrooms #mushroomsofinstagram #shroom #mycology #westvirginia #nature #science #mushroomsdaily #russulaceae #wildandwonderful #naturephotography

A splattering of the appropriately named "elegant sunburst lichen" (Xanthoria elegans) in @yellowstonenps. X. elegans is found on every continent except Australia and is widespread in Antarctica. Its orange color comes from carotenoids—the same compounds that make carrots and pumpkins orange. The predominant carotenoid in X. elegans is mutatoxanthin, which protects the lichen from the photooxidizing action of UV light. As a result, specimens growing in areas with intense UV radiation contain more carotenoids than those growing in shaded areas. After an initial period of 1-2 decades to establish, X. elegans grows at a rate of 0.5 mm per year for the first century before slowing down. Oh, this lichen has also been tested under space conditions (like tardigrades aka moss piglets). It survived an 18-month exposure to solar UV radiation, cosmic rays, vacuum, and varying temperatures in an experiment performed by the European Space Agency outside of the International Space Station!! 🔸 #lichens #sunburst #fungi #space #internationalspacestation #science #nature #yellowstone #nationalpark

Goblet waxcap triplets (Hygrocybe cantharellus). These are saprobic on the dead roots of nearby plants. Recent research has suggested that there is also some kind of mutual relationship between waxcaps and mosses. 🍄 📷: @judsongates 🍄 #fungi #moss #forest #mushrooms #gobletwaxcaps #hardwoodforest #eastcoast #nature #naturephotography

A lil patch of Cladonia sp. (pixie cup lichen) on a winter morning. 🌱 #lichen #lichens #pixiecuplichen #pixiecup #cladonia #nature #moss #westvirginia #naturephotography #winter #appalachia #photography #naturelovers #lichenology #ecology #science

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