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naturaldynamics

#pictographs, #wanapumpetroglyphs, #photography, #neolithicwallart, #WAstate, #columbiariver, #history,
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Wisdom in Space

The Disney-ABC-Time-Warner-Microsoft machine -- exists only because we turn it on. If enough of us turn it off, it is gone. Think of it: It is in your power to plunge Bill Gates into poverty, to send Peter Jennings off to 'Good Morning, Saskatchewan,' to rid the world of Disney-licensed products, to see Martha Stewart and Jerry Springer reduced to talking only to each other. Disconnect now!
-- Michael Kelly (Editor-in-Chief, National Journal)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MichaelKelly #Microsoft

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah

photo by richard rathe
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grateful wolf

termites and spirits and eland - oh my!

Rock Art and Hunter–Gatherer Landscapes: Iconography, Cosmology and Topography in Southern Africa [pdf, xml, epub 39pp] #RockArt #pictographs #HunterGatherer #HunterForager mdpi.com/2076-0752/14/1/15

MDPIRock Art and Hunter–Gatherer Landscapes: Iconography, Cosmology and Topography in Southern AfricaLandscape studies of hunter–gatherer rock art often suffer from logical flaws. Some of these failings stem from the founding question that researchers ask: “Why do some places have images while others do not?” This question is misleading and not particularly helpful in some—but not all—contexts where there is no direct ethnographic evidence to provide an answer. Instead, we suggest that a better question from which to begin is: “How are rock art images related to landscape?”. To answer this question, we examine the relationship between iconography, cosmology and topography in two areas of southern African San rock painting. We argue that cosmology guided iconography and that the imagery, in turn, manipulated topography into landscape for the San. In this view, we do not need to rely on cognitive templates that invest topography a priori with significance that then determines the choice of locale for art. Instead, landscape for the San was socially and symbolically constructed through the placement of imagery.
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Wisdom in Space

To exercise control over what happens to you as an individual, you must be involved with others in a process that decides what happens to you and your fellow citizens collectively. We can no longer separate the quality of personal life from the quality of social life. To preserve private space, we must also preserve the commons.
-- Willard Gaylin and Bruce Jennings (The Perversion of Autonomy)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WillardGaylinandBruceJennings #Autonomy #Society

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

photo by richard rathe
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Wisdom in Space

I don't see that it makes any point that someone in the Swedish academy just decides that this work is noble enough to receive a prize--I've already gotten the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding a thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it--those are the real things. The honors are unreal to me. I don't believe in honors.
-- Richard Feynman

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardFeynman #Discovery #Honors

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

photo by richard rathe
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Wisdom in Space

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AbrahamLincoln #Ethics #Society #Work

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

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