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symbiosis

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Organisms in a symbiotic relationship evolve together.
Each is part of the other's environment,
so as they adapt to their environment,
they "make use of" each other in a way that benefits all.

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the insect warrior

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het lied der dwaze bijen

Een geur van hoger honing
verbitterde de bloemen,
een geur van hoger honing
verdreef ons uit de woning.

Die geur en een zacht zoemen
in het azuur bevrozen,
die geur en een zacht zoemen
een steeds herhaald niet-noemen,

ried ons, ach roekelozen,
de tuinen op te geven
riep ons, ach roekelozen,
naar raadselige rozen.

Ver van ons volk en leven
zijn wij naar avonturen
ver van ons volk en leven
jubelend voortgedreven.

Niemand kan van nature
zijn hartstocht onderbreken,
niemand kan van nature
in lijve de dood verduren.

Steeds heviger bezweken,
steeds helderder doorschenen,
steeds heviger bezweken
naar het ontwijkend teken,

stegen wij en verdwenen,
ontvoerd, ontlijfd, ontzworven,
stegen wij en verdwenen
als glinsteringen henen. –

Het sneeuwt, wij zijn gestorven,
huiswaarts omlaag gedwereld,
het sneeuwt, wij zijn gestorven,
het sneeuwt tussen de korven.


Martinus Nijhoff

a dance

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a tree

Rabindranath Tagore.. ' a tree ' .... watercolour on board 12" x 8"

রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর

আমার এ গান ছেড়েছে তার সকল অলংকার,
তোমার কাছে রাখে নি আর সাজের অহংকার
অলংকার যে মাঝে পড়ে মিলনেতে আড়াল করে,
তোমার কথা ঢাকে যে তার মুখর ঝংকার
তোমার কাছে খাটে না মোর কবির গর্ব করা,
মহাকবি তোমার পায়ে দিতে যে চাই ধরা
জীবন লয়ে যতন করি যদি সরল বাঁশি গড়ি,
আপন সুরে দিবে ভরি সকল ছিদ্র তার

into the light

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petals

Life is a stream
On which we strew
Petal by petal the flower of our heart;
The end lost in dream,
They float past our view,
We only watch their glad, early start.

Freighted with hope,
Crimsoned with joy,
We scatter the leaves of our opening rose;
Their widening scope,
Their distant employ,
We never shall know. And the stream as it flows
Sweeps them away,
Each one is gone
Ever beyond into infinite ways.
We alone stay
While years hurry on,
The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays.


Amy Lowell
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Blume

Chrysantemum
For you I am a chrysantemum
Supernova, urgent star

Astera Compositae
For you I`ll be a dandelion
a thousand flowerettes in the sky
Or just a drop in the ocean

If you know my name
don't speak it out
it holds a power — as before

Liliacea
A lily of the valley
a flower of saron

Helianthus annus
For you I even be a sunflower
Do you hear my enlightening laughter?
another reason to cut off an ear

For you know my name, do you not?
don't say it
For it is sacred, immovable frozen

Rosa, Anemone et Nymphea alba
I'll even be a waterlily,
a marygold, a rose
or a little thistle

Euphorbia
a blue dahlia, a black tulip
that's where opinions differ
the scholars disagree

My name, should you know it
remains unspeakable
and is spoken — malediction


Einstürzende Neubauten

creeping ladies tresses

All orchids demonstrate one of the closest symbiotic relationships known in the plant kingdom, and creeping ladies tresses is no exception. A symbiotic partnership means that both parties benefit from the association, without any detrimental effect to one another. Orchids have a very intimate relationship with specific fungi and in fact they cannot grow without their fungal partner. The fungus actually lives inside the root cells of the orchid and this close partnership results in a dual organism known as a mycorrhiza. Within the root the fungus is provided with an ideal growing environment, devoid of competition and it is thought that some vitamins are provided by the orchid. Part of the fungus penetrates the root wall and has contact with the surrounding soil. It can then take up nutrients, such as cellulose and other carbon compounds, and break them down to a soluble form that can be used by the orchid.

www.treesforlife.org.uk

Rhizoctonia Repens

paphiopedilum lowii

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Blue Orchid

You got a reaction

You got a reaction, didn't you?

You took a white orchid

You took a white orchid turned it blue

Something better than nothing

Something better than nothing, it's giving up

We all need to do something

Try to keep the truth from showing up

How dare you

How old are you now, anyway?

How dare you

How old are you now, anyway?

You're given a flower

But I guess there's just no pleasing you

Your lip tastes sour

But you think that it's just me teasing you

You got a reaction

You got a reaction, didn't you?

You took a white orchid

You took a white orchid turned it blue

Get behind me

Get behind me now, anyway

Get behind me

Get behind me now, anyway

You got a reaction

You got a reaction, didn't you?

You took a white orchid

You took a white orchid turned it blue

"Blue Orchid"

White Stripes, USA, XXIst Century

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Ophrys

Perhaps the most bizzare adaptation of flowers to animal behavior is found in the orchid, Ophrys (sorry, no slide of this one...rats!). This orchid looks like a female wasp and even smells like one. The orchid fragrance is collected by females of the wasp species and is used as a sex attractant for males (a phermomone). The orchids bloom first. Then male wasps emerge from pupae. They smell females! They fly toward the source of the fragrance...there they are! They attempt to mate with the "females," but they are just flowers. The pollen sacs are stuck on the male wasp. The frustrated male moves on to "pseudocopulate" with yet other flowers. The pollen sacs are removed and pollination is achieved. Finally the real female wasps emerge, visit the fading orchid flowers to collect the pheromone, and start to "appear" in the fragrance profile of the male wasps. He mates with the real female, it works!, and the wasps reproduce too. If you think about this, the two species are elegantly timed and chemically and structurally related so that neither can reproduce properly without the other. Amazing!

orchid in full bloom

you are me

You are me and I am you.
It is obvious that we are inter-are.
You cultivate the flower in
yourself so that I will be beautiful.
I transform the garbage in myself so
that you do not have to suffer.
I support you you support me.
I am here to bring you peace
you are here to bring me joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

a drop in the ocean

remainders

endless moving

panta rhei, ouden menei

all is flux, nothing stays still
said the Greek Herakleitos 2500 years ago

Citeaux, XIIth Century

eternal knot

when walking through the ancient woods
my eyes can see and follow forms
of branches leaves and upper roots
beneath the ground it’s merely known
by being told we have understood
more roots are there to bear the storms
and more are needed for bearing fruits

but now we stand here on our own
we ate the fruits while we forgot
how all is part of the eternal knot

The end is the beginning is the end

blind melon

Not the roots but the fruits!

Ain't no need for roots. What tells are the fruits!

roots

Baka Gbiné ' Nawa '

who are the baka pygmies ?

For the Baka, the forest is mother, father and guardian and music is an intrinsic part of their lives. They have a thorough knowledge and understanding of the forest and its products, including the healing power of the plants and as such have become guardians of this huge natural pharmacy.
For others, including the international logging companies, it is a resource to be exploited and the Baka are being unceremoniously pushed out as part of this conflict of interests. Baka culture is totally dependent on their continued unrestricted access to their ancient rainforests, and denied their lifestyle.
In a recent BBC World Service interview with Mbeh, one of the Baka guitarists, he said: "We are born and grew up in the forest; we do everything in the forest, gathering, hunting and fishing. Now where do they want us to make our lives? We are prevented from using the forest. Where are we supposed to live our lives?"

As

De ster aan de hemel
Het vuur op de aarde
De as van de stookplaats
De blik in de ogen
Zijn wolk
En rook
En dood

Willem Hussem, Pygmee zang

the gods must be crazy

The San-people (aka Bushmen) are the original human beings of Southern Africa. Their distinct hunter-gatherer culture stretches back over 20.000 years, and their genetic origins reach back over one million years. Recent research indicates that the San are the oldest genetic stock of contemporary humanity. Ten thousand years ago their exclusive domain stretched from the Zambezi to the Cape of Good Hope, from the Atlantic to the Indian Oceans. Three hundred years ago European colonists called them "untameable". Now southern Africa's 110.000 remaining San face cultural extinction, living lives of poverty on the outer edges of society.

Coke

!ke e: /xarra //ke

sagittarius serpentarius

Quetzalcoatl

over leven

antaboga

Ouroboros

maya

Rose

resonance

Sand...

om mani padme hum .

Rimbaud, Voyelles

A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu : voyelles,
Je dirai quelque jour vos naissances latentes :
A, noir corset velu des mouches éclatantes
Qui bombinent autour des puanteurs cruelles,

Golfes d'ombre ; E, candeurs des vapeurs et des tentes,
Lances des glaciers fiers, rois blancs, frissons d'ombelles ;
I, pourpres, sang craché, rire des lèvres belles
Dans la colère ou les ivresses pénitentes ;

U, cycles, vibrement divins des mers virides,
Paix des pâtis semés d'animaux, paix des rides
Que l'alchimie imprime aux grands fronts studieux ;

O, suprême Clairon plein des strideurs étranges,
Silences traversés des Mondes et des Anges :
- O l'Oméga, rayon violet de Ses Yeux !

rainbow

... want you to know i'm a rainbow too ...

golden brown

The Stranglers

emerald

Thin Lizzy

Tabula Smaragdina

Verba secretorum Hermetis – Verum, sine mendacio, certum et verissimum : QUOD EST INFERIUS EST SICUT QUOD EST SUPERIUS; et quod est superius est sicut quod est inferius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius. Et sicut omnes res fuerunt ab uno, mediatione unius, sic omnes res natae fuerunt ab hac una re, adaptatione. Pater ejus est Sol, mater ejus Luna; portavit illud Ventus in ventre suo; nutrix ejus Terra est. Pater omnis telesmi totius mundi est hic. Vis ejus integra est si versa fuerit in terram. Separabis terram ab igne, subtile a spisso, suaviter, cum magno ingenio. Ascendit a terra in coelum, iterumque descendit in terram, et recipit vim superiorum et inferiorum. Sic habebis gloriam totius mundi. Ideo fugiet a te omnis obscuritas. Hic est totius fortitudine fortitudo fortis; quia vincet omnem rem subtilem, omnemque solidam penetrabit. Sic mundus creatus est. Hinc erunt adaptationes mirabiles, quarum modus est hic. Itaque vocatus sum Hermes Trismegistus, habens tres partes philosophiæ totius mundi. Completum est quod dixi de operatione Solis.

as above

so below

"...we are all flying jellyfishes, dreaming of the Sahara"

luminosity

amphiprion ocellaris

Clownfish live in a mutual relationship with sea anemones, or in some case settle in some varieties of soft corals, or large polyp stony corals. Once an anemone or coral has been adopted, the clownfish will defend it vigorously.

Clownfish are protandrous hermaphrodites, meaning they are hatched as sexually immature fry. Based on signals from their environment and being physically mature (12 to 24 months) they will either remain sexually immature, change into a male or change into a male then female. A group of clownfish is always built into a hierarchy of this type, with the female (the largest and most aggressive) at the top. The change from juvenile to male, and male to female is irreversible. If the female should die or be removed from the group, the most dominant male then changes into a female, and the rest of the males move up a rank on the hierarchy.

Wikipedia

clownfish

the world in a marble

honey guide

symbiosis and evolution

hermitcrab & anemone

The biologist Lynn Margulis, famous for the work on endosymbiosis, contends that symbiosis is a major driving force behind evolution. She considers Darwin's notion of evolution, driven by competition, as incomplete, and claims evolution is strongly based on co-operation, interaction, and mutual dependence among organisms.
According to Margulis and Sagan (1986), life did not take over the globe by combat, but by networking. As in humans, organisms that cooperate with others of their own or different species often outcompete those that don't.

Wikipedia