Robert L. Peters

8 May 2013

Pick a style, any style…

North Korean hairstyles in a salon

Pyongyang, North Korea

“North Korean women are encouraged by the state to choose from one of the 18 officially sanctioned hairstyles, as shown in this display on the wall of a salon in the capital…”

(source, via Marian Bantjes)


7 May 2013

The land is one organism.

Conservation

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. By land is meant all of the things on, over, or in the earth. Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism. Its parts, like our own parts, compete with each other and co-operate with each other. The competitions are as much a part of the inner workings as the co-operations. You can regulate them—cautiously—but not abolish them.

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Only those who know the most about it can appreciate how little we know about it. The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: “What good is it?” If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

Leopold, Aldo: Round River, Oxford University Press, New York, 1993 (Thanks to Derek Kornelson for introducing me to the works of Aldo Leopold.)


6 May 2013

Hungry…

hungry_poster

(source : Jee Eun Lee


5 May 2013

Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.

—The Hausa of Nigeria


4 May 2013

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)


3 May 2013

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Le Corbusier (1887-1965)


2 May 2013

NOT JUST THE HUMAN $PECIES…

Human_$pecies

(the lastest poster from my friend Chaz Maviyane-Davies)


1 May 2013

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse…

Bruce Cockburn


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