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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"

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

paphiopedilum lowii

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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

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

blind melon

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?"

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.

sagittarius serpentarius

over leven

antaboga

maya

resonance

om mani padme hum .

rainbow

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

golden brown

The Stranglers

emerald

Thin Lizzy

as above

so below

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

the world in a marble

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