Some Call Me Nature...

“Some call me Nature. Others call me Mother Nature.
I’ve been here for over 4 and a half billion years. 22.500 times longer than you.
I don’t really need people, but people need me.
Yes, your future depends on me.
When I thrive you thrive. When I falter you falter…Or worse.
But I’ve been here for eons.
I have fed species greater than you. And I have starved species greater than you.
My oceans, my soil, my flowing streams and my forests.
They all can take you—or leave you…
How you choose to live each day weather you regard or disregard me, doesn’t really matter to me.
One way or the other…Your actions will determine your fate. Not mine.
I’m Nature. I’ll go on. I am prepared to evolve.
Are you?”

Julia Robert’s and an other 9 A-list movie stars donated their time and intonations to a stunning public awareness movies evolving the human race dangers of suffering a massive die-off extinction.

The two minutes short films pretend to reach every human being and reflect on the several pure elements of our Planet. Water, Ice, Forests, asking globally why humans pay so little attention to the hazards posed by overpopulation, environmental pollution, deforestation, biodiversity degradation, overheated climate, and other ecological pressures.

Humans are asked here to pay attention to the alarming signs and react before it’s too late.
This is not about saving Nature.

This is about saving Ourselves. 

The Human Race.

A BALANCED World

The Ultimate Fisher

Haven't you ever missed flying?

Haven't you ever wished to fly above the mountains completely free?

Watching this beautiful osprey catching fish, carrying them on its long talons, some of them dramatically heavy, reminds me how skills can be refined in nature regarding the survival sequence.

I was just thinking that I was missing my blogs. The right place to let your spirit fly like a dramatically lonely eagle. 

Like if it was TIME to return to our little village by the sea.

CRV©Portugal - Lisbon - THE MOON - May 2012

Tonight I managed to take this Moon shot with my Nikon camera and a Sigma 500mm zoom.

The night was bright and the Moon was really those 40% brighter than usual.  This is one of those rare situations in which it was possible to capture the impact of meteorites on the lunar surface.

Hope you enjoy!

Seychelles - Moyenne Island - Brendon Grimshaw's Private Paradise

 Brendon Grimshaw's Island - Seychelles

"Did you ever bathe in the hot blue water with your feet on a coral-reef strand, with starfish tickling the soles of your feet, with the bleached sand running beneath them, with the water melting into the sky in waves of sunshine, and your body melting into the water? Then your body has no burden, it wavers and washes in the moving of the sea, and your weightless feet, your water-washed thighs, your shadowed legs, your drifting hands, dissolve from you, and are born into the warmness and coolness and sweetness of the sea."
Agnes Keith in "Land Below the Wind"

When I read here that Brendon Grimshaw had, on his thirties, the opportunity to buy his private paradise I immediately went back on my memories to this beautiful passage, from the Agnes Keith's book "Land Below the Wind". Few books gave a sense of calm and tranquility like this one and maybe I thought that Brendon Grimshaw managed in his life to achieve what many of us dream.

50 years ago Brendon accepted the challenge of buying an atoll at the Seychelles sea. It was just a desert amount of bush and rocks in the middle of nowhere. 50 years later, 16.000 trees planted, tracks manually build, wood houses erected on the top of the reef, thousands of birds and turtles well adapted to the island, Brendon has finally that magic story to tell to the world. How a single man managed to transform desert into life, the quietness of the sea in the singing of birds, rocks into a dense forest, a desert island into a National Park.

It took until the early 1970s before he was able to move to Moyenne Island full time. Brendon has become one of the few people to ever live on the island. He puts the number of his predecessors at three.
The first challenge, then, was to cut a path through the undergrowth so he could see exactly what the island had to offer and what needed to be done.
From the impenetrable bush with few signs of fauna, - where to get from one side to the other of the island it was required swimming around or boating - he created a micro climate, planting mahogany and palm trees, which attracted thousands of birds and forested a thriving community of giant tortoises, none of which were around when he bought the island.

The island was in the past a stop where pirates docked, so he wasn't surprised when he found two pirate's graves which the carefully looks after settling his own future grave right beside them.

Brenton has had offers of 50 million pounds to sell the island but be doesn't have a greedy nature. He prefered to apply for the Seychelles Goverment and transform Moyenne Island into a National Park. He succeed to do so and now, with more than 80 years old, he is living his relaxing days on the quietness of a Private Paradise.

Moyenne Island & the mahogany trees from Wandering Eye on Vimeo.
Here you can see the all story

Hugs

Pretty Under World...In Pink

Will Burrard-Lucas and His Beetle-Cam at the Masai-Mara Reserve

BeetleCam is Back Teaser from Will & Matt Burrard-Lucas on Vimeo.

In what concerns nature photographers I can tell you that CLOSE in never enough. So, conservation photographer Will Burrard-Lucas has created a high-tech solution that has helped get him amazing images that would otherwise be impossible - such as lions feasting, or Komodo dragons flicking their tongues at the lens. 

Most recently Burrard-Lucas has made modifications to their "BeetleCam" that provide photographers with even more flexibility for getting images, and these incredible photos of lions show off what is possible. Watch the movie. from here

Free Among the Sea

A nice week to everyone!

Tahiti & Fiji

Beauty

Beautiful Nature, the way it is

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