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Fungi. Mushrooms : how to grow them. 1891. Cover detail.

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Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle - Charles d’Orbigny - c.1844-1849 - via e-rara

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Satin Gloss. The small fruit culturist. 1881.

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Late Carboniferous scene, G. B. Bertelli

When the air is still, soaked in the swamp's humidity, the only sound is that of the meganeurids' wings beating against it. It is like the gentle noise of paper rattling in the wind, or breaths shivering against the throat.

But to the swamp's the smaller insects, the beat of those wings is like the roar of thunder, a buzzsaw that warns them to retreat under leaves, under logs, under water. Bugs freeze, flies flee, and silverfish slither into shadows when the meganeurids pound the skies with those French chapel wings. Those who ignore the warning are snatched and devoured before they know they are dead.

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Winter Light -   William H. Hays , n/d.

American, b. 1956 -

Color linocut reduction on paper, 12 x 9 in. 31 x 23.5 cm.  Ed. 20.

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Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie, Atlas d'histoire naturelle - Anatolii Demidov - 1841/1842 - via Internet Archive

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Deer mushroom. Pluteus cervinus. Researches on Fungi. 1958. 

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Blue butterfly with a swallow tail. Chūrui gafu. 1910.

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Jan van KESSEL I Study of Insects, Butterflies and a Snail with a Sprig of Forget-Me-Nots 1659 Oil on copper, 12 x 18 cm Private collection

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Didus solitarius, from the 1907 book Extinct birds: an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times, that is, within the last six or seven hundred years, to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction by Lionel Water Rothschild

Perhaps some things only become beautiful after they are lost. Or maybe they were always beautiful, but we were distracted and stupid. Or beauty doesn’t exist until the moment we are ready to see it—but by then it’s too late.

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