This Overview shows a deforested area of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Since the mid-1980s, resettlement of people from the high plains of the Andes Mountains and a corresponding agricultural development effort known as the Tierras Bajas project has led to utter deforestation in this region. The pinwheel-patterned fields follow the San Javier resettlement scheme, with each pinwheel containing a central community that includes a church, bar/café, school, and soccer field. The light-colored areas of the formations are primarily fields of soybeans, and the dark lines running through the fields are “windbreaks” that prevent the erosion of the area’s unusually fine soil.
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Aerial view of a volcanic crater. Danakil Depression, Ethiopia Photo credit: Chris John
An aerial view of Rockefeller Center on March 1, 1937.
Photo: NY Daily News
Fish farms on the Nile delta - Egypt 🌍 4K link
“deus est mortali iuvare mortalem.”
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“For a person to help a person, that is god.”
Pliny the Elder, Natural History II.18
Aerial view of center-pivot (or circular) irrigation farming just east of the Rockies on the Great Plains… I think I calculated that each circle has a diameter of 1/2 mile (about 1 km)… amazing view from the air!
‘A little light’, said the Jewish mystics, ‘drives away much darkness.’ And when light is joined to light, mine to yours and yours to others, the dance of flames, each so small, yet together so intricately beautiful, begins to show that hope is not an illusion… All I can say is what I feel: that the people I have met who have lit candles in other people’s lives have given me the strength to carry on.
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l, To Heal a Fractured World p. 271
Van Gogh's Starry Night with the first image taken by the James Webb telescope by alpgenart (via astronomy_eye)
Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Mount Fuji seen from the International Space Station.