Its Easy To Forget The Magnitude Of Nature When We Are Consumed By The Metropolis We Live In. Chur, Switzerland.

Thank you @bigode59 and everyone who got me to 10 reblogs!

In my recent zine, I mentioned that I enjoy fly fishing. It's not exactly the most "dark academia" thing to do, but I do like to dress the part. I get some odd looks but I don't care.

Some days, I choose to be an adventurer.

Now THAT’S a desk

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Venice, Italy | ninasclicks

Now this is wisdom. I mean, the source title says it all.

“Fairy tales — the proper kind, those original Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen tales I recall from my Eastern European childhood, unsanitized by censorship and unsweetened by American retellings — affirm what children intuitively know to be true but are gradually taught to forget, then to dread: that the terrible and the terrific spring from the same source, and that what grants life its beauty and magic is not the absence of terror and tumult but the grace and elegance with which we navigate the gauntlet.”

— Maria Popova, “The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear” (via soracities)

Allegory of Divine Providence, 1633-39, by Pietro da Cortona (c. 1596-1669)

Somebody tried to make me famous. Thanks!