We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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If we strive to be happy by filling all the silences of life with sound, productive by turning all life's leisure into work, and real by turning all our being into doing, we will only succeed in producing a hell on earth.
-- Thomas Merton (No Man is an Island)
New paper titled "A genomic perspective on the origins, evolution and adaptation of Galapagos iguanas" is currently under revision, but it is also available as pre-print here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.13.648612v1
The Galápagos siesta style
#wildlife #photography #animals #nikon
#nationalgeographic #nature #galapagos #animals
#wildlife #photography #animals #nikon
#nationalgeographic #nature #galapagos #animals
Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.
-- William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
"A senior United States official" is a political appointee over 30. "A senior agency employee" is a midlevel careerocrat looking out a Langley window and dreaming about a book contract. No confidential informant is ever identified as "junior," which would impugn the status of the source.
-- William Safire
#Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamSafire #Journalism #Sources
#Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
-- Isaac Asimov
#Wisdom #Quotes #IsaacAsimov #Ignorance #Knowledge
#Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
Always assume the best about your audience.
-- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)
#Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardTufte #Communication #Presentations
#Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
-- Vince Lombardi
#Wisdom #Quotes #VinceLombardi #Confidence
#Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
A starfish clings to a rock on San Cristóbal island, #Galápagos, #Ecuador
Which planet did it come from?
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
A giant tortoise snacks at #Galápagos national park, #Ecuador
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Sealing the bond
A sea lion joins in on a beach siesta on San Cristóbal island, #Galápagos, #Ecuador
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Auf einer #Galapagos Insel bekriegten sich 1934 deutsche Aussteiger:innen bis zum Tod. Nun kommt das Drama als Film "Eden" ins Kino. Für @tazgetroete habe ich mit Margit Niedermaier gesprochen, die eine der realen Protagonistinnen kannte. Eine Geschichte über starke Frauen. https://taz.de/Spielfilm-ueber-die-Galapagos-Affaere-1934/!6079645/ #Ecuador
TAZ Verlags- und Vertriebs GmbH · Spielfilm über die Galapagos-Affäre 1934: Eden, ein MissverständnisDer Film „Eden“ zeigt das Drama deutscher Aussteiger, die sich 1934 bekriegten. Eine Begegnung mit Margit Niedermaier, die eine der Figuren gut kannte.
Vogelverhalten auf den Galapagosinseln verändert sich! 
Lärmbelästigung durch zunehmenden Verkehr beeinflusst das Verhalten der Tiere. Ein wichtiges Thema für den Naturschutz. Mehr dazu hier: https://de.euronews.com/green/2025/03/24/rowdy-im-paradies-verkehrslarm-verandert-das-verhalten-der-vogel-auf-den-galapagos-inseln #Galapagos #Naturschutz #Umwelt #Vögel #newz
euronews · Neue Studie zeigt Verkehrslärm auf Galápagos macht Vögel aggressivWie verändert Verkehrslärm das Verhalten der Vögel auf Galapagos? Eine Studie weist auf neue Herausforderungen für den Naturschutz hin, da das Bevölkerungswachstum Menschen und Tiere näher zusammenbringt.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
-- Mark Twain
#Wisdom #Quotes #MarkTwain #Experience #Life
#Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
I think that it's an honorable thing to change your mind occasionally. I don't think it's a sign of weakness or lack of integrity. I believe men are united by their doubts and separated by their convictions. Therefore, it's a very good thing to have doubts. Doubts are the greatest spur to activity that I know of.
-- Peter Ustinov
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
-- E. H. Gombrich
#Wisdom #Quotes #EHGombrich #Illusion
#Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
The crimes of the century were the result of a faith in final solutions, and hence the failure to be reconciled to the limits of human reason and to the inevitability of loss and error.
-- Isaiah Berlin
#Wisdom #Quotes #IsaiahBerlin #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Reason
Final week of the @UAFunMorph Galápagos expedition! 
Capturing high-speed footage of Darwin's finches while they feed and sing to study beak movement. Best of luck to Irene, Cas, and Jan for the final data collection! 
We are grateful to our helpers and sponsors. #DarwinsFinches #Galapagos
