“Toute la jeunesse est dehors, sur cette place, sous les éclairs et les grondements incessants du ciel. On entend des chants sifflés de jeunes gens qui percent le tonnerre de leur douceur.”
— Marguerite Duras, Dix heures et demie du soir en été
“Il a parlé de Vérone. De l'amour toute la nuit, entre eux, dans une salle de bains de Vérone. Un orage aussi, l'été aussi, et l'hôtel plein.”
— Marguerite Duras, Dix heures et demie du soir en été
The bumblebees really like our Japanese barberry.
A girl collects water lillies from a canal near Uttar Stla village in Barisal, Bangladesh on October 24, 2017. (Azim Khan Ronnie/Pacific Press)
not to start any drama but once you realize that you do not need men to be happy/complete/sexually satisfied & that their roles in the lives of women have been greatly exaggerated, you open your life up to a quiet and peaceful independence. i appreciate that you can want men and love them, but you don’t need them for a single solitary thing, not even to become a mother, and once i understood that i added 548 years to my life expectancy
” muscariazon being ” collage 2011
An overview of a local neighborhood, with a light rainfall, Hanoi, Vietnam, Paul Chesley.
The Black Footed cat is the smallest wild cat in Africa and one of the smallest wild cats in the world.
Here’s an adult kitty for size comparison:
too smoll
OK but you can’t mention my all-time favorite cat without also mentioning that these little motherfuckers are legendary for being 1000% ready to throw down with anyone at any time, they’ve literally been seen trying to fight a giraffe and are known to successfully bring down sheep by getting underneath them and ripping their bellies open like what the fuck, chill
Their name in Afrikaans means “anthill tiger” because they’ll hide inside a hollowed out anthill and then jump out and try to rip your face off
They are perfect and I love them
Aw, look at these little murder muffins.
smallest and deadliest wild cat. Observed at a 60% success rate in hunting, and averaging a kill every fifty minutes—a lion might succeed in hunting twenty, twenty-five percent of the time. Their small, energetic bodies require a rate of a-murder-per-hour in order to sustain their metabolisms.
(“miershoop” can also mean “termite mound”, which is one of their preferred places to sleep)
