Diatom Microscopy

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The wafer like object featured above is a diatom.

It was taken from a water sample in the Gulf of Maine and is seen here edge on, as observed through a microscope — think of viewing a galaxy edgewise in a telescope. 

A diatom is an aquatic, photosynthetic algae. 
This one is about 100 microns across; approximately the width of a human hair.

Aquatic plants constitute 10 percent of the Earth’s biomass and may produce as much as 50 percent of the Earth’s oxygen. 

Diatoms may also be very significant in the field of nanotechnology; they produce micro-scale valves that may, someday, be components in solar panels on our roofs.

These little creatures appear in the fossil record as far back as the Jurassic Period – more than 144 million years ago.

—John Stetson

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hush

 

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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of the oceans. 

–Kahlil Gibran 

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traveller

 

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Rivers are roads which move,  
and which carry us whither we desire to go.

 

—Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) 
 


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in(finite

    

 

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My whole life is mine, but whoever says so
will deprive me, for it is infinite.

The ripple of water, the shade of the sky
are mine; it is still the same, my life.

No desire opens me: I am full,
I never close myself with refusal-
in the rythm of my daily soul
I do not desire-I am moved;

by being moved I exert my empire,
making the dreams of night real:
into my body at the bottom of the water
I attract the beyonds of mirrors...


—Rainer Maria Rilke

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the Universe is singing

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My grandma told me that the Universe is singing in the snowflakes, the raindrops, in the trees, the water, and all Creation. Physicists call this holistic holographic universe. 

Lakotas call it Taku Wakan Skan Skan/Mitakuye Oyasin, which means everything is connected and related in divine rhythm, vibration. Remember the Lakotas know that the song sings the singer. The Spirit sings the song.

—Basil Braveheart

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wait - what ?

Tanakit Suwanyangyaun photo

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thirst

 

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Water, is taught by thirst.

Land — by the Oceans passed.

Transport — by throe — 

Peace — by its battles told —

Love, by Memorial Mold —

Birds, by the Snow.

—Emily Dickinson 

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five things you didn't know about water

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The surface tension in a drop of water is enough to hold a world in, 
if the world is small enough, 

A cubic meter of salt water contains seventy billion tears and tears 
are what you are made of -- salt and water and pain and relief 

The distance between you and me can be measured in drowned 
fishermen, ships lost at sea, shipboard romances, and tidal waves 

When you sweat, your frustration comes out in rivulets, meaning 
you have many avenues for relieving your stress: heat and hard work 
are not your only choices, but they do the job if you let them 

I brought you this glass of water because I don't have any comfort 
to give you so I comfort myself with this wet gift


—Serene Vannoy

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I love rains which carry desires
to 
oceans

  

—Etel Adnan
The Manifestations of the Voyage

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questions

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I have been thinking of the difference between 
water and the waves on it. 

Rising, water's still water, 
falling back, it is water, 
will you give me a hint how to tell them apart? 

Because someone has made up the word 

"wave," 
do I have to distinguish it from water? 

There is a Secret One inside us; 

the planets in all the galaxies pass through 
his hands like beads.

That is a string of beads one should look at 

with luminous eyes. 

—Kabir

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