Rachel@LandOfChalk ❄️

Say hello to Jonathan he was born in 1832 & is 192 years old

These jewel-like curiosities are toothworts (genus Lathraea) from around the world. They lack leaves and chlorophyll, and steal their food from the roots of forest trees. I'm proud that my PhD student, Seb Hatt, has just written the first monograph of these extraordinary plants, which we've published in the journal Phytotaxa.

Robert Frost 🖎

I love this sentiment.

The Hope

Wendell Berry.

The shortest walk ever

Instead of “once upon a time,” Korean folk and fairy tales often begin with 호랑이 담배 피우던 시절에. It means “back when tigers smoked (pipes)”

A few weeks ago we stayed in this 15th and 16th century cottage. This is what we found 🧵:

You knew that this Ellen Bass was going to return …from Mules of Love 😴😴😴

@CarolineBirdUK Effortless. Beautiful.

‘Then he lay down to sleep like a snow-covered road’ - Li-Young Lee

Jane Hirshfield • The Asking For me, this is the hardest lesson of life — it goes out to everything equally … all the heavens and hells

My new favorite word: sonder. It's the profound awareness that every person you encounter has experienced a lifetime of hopes, fears, loves, and heartaches that you'll never know. Each moment of sonder is a reminder to appreciate how little we truly grasp about others' lives.

November blues

@mark_lj Simply magical

Leaf Keeping it simple.

Calm Sea, looking towards North Berwick. 58x 90cm #painting #sea #calm #enpleinair

Submissions to this year's Moth Poetry Prize – one of the world's biggest prizes for a single poem – are now open. There's €11,000 up for grabs if your poem catches the eye of this year's judge, Fiona Benson! Closing 31 December. 🌟 bit.ly/mothpoetry24