Mono (almost white) detail of a tulip, it looks like silk blowing in the wind.

I close the #TulipStudy with this image and add a #Reminder that

All life is precious
and so is living.

For too long have we suffered
systems which serve warmongers, billionaires & the power hungry.

Time to refuse to be complicit.
Time to choose to live.

#photography #tulip #EndAllWars #mono

Tulip apparently flying in the wind.

#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that

WARS are a human invention,
not human nature
not a necessity.

What is vital
is that we come together
& restore our planet.
:
:
#EndAllWars #NoWars #EndGenocide #tulip #photography #bloomscroll #nature #OurFuture #rewilding #climate #EverythingIsConnected #mono

Tulip petals.

#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that

WARS ONLY SERVE
the weapons industry.

There’s no justification to tolerate
suffering & destruction.

:
:
#EndAllWars #NoWars #EndGenocide #tulip #photography #bloomscroll #nature #OurFuture #EverythingIsConnected #blackandwhite

Open tulip raising its petals towards the sun.

#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that

planet Earth is one planet,
and we are its people.

We don’t need to fight for more exploitation.

We need to restore our planet.

#EndAllWars #NoWars #EndGenocide #tulip #photography #bloomscroll #nature #OurFuture #rewilding #EverythingIsConnected #blackandwhite

Black and white tulip against the sky as if dancing in the wind.

#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that

WARS END
when enough of us say NO!
:
:
:
#EndAllWars #NoWars #EndGenocide #tulip #photography #bloomscroll #nature #OurFuture #EverythingIsConnected #blackandwhite

Detail, view into the tulip. There’s a dynamic as if it was reaching for something.

#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that

WARS END
when enough of us say NO!
:
Why should we?
Because the only thing wars achieve is destruction. And we all pay the price for it.
:
:
#EndAllWars #NoWars #EndGenocide #tulip #photography #bloomscroll #nature #OurFuture #EverythingIsConnected #blackandwhite

A tangle of tulip petals.

#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that

EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE
when we come together.

EVERYTHING WILL BE LOST
if we don’t end
wars
genocide
and ecocide.

BECAUSE
everything is connected.
:
#EndAllWars #NoWars #EndGenocide #tulip #photography #bloomscroll #ecocide #EverythingIsConnected #blackandwhite

A dance of tulip petals.

#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that our planet needs us to focus on restoring our ecosystems, divesting from fossil fuels, rethinking our economic system.

We can’t afford not to.
We can’t afford wars.

#EndAllWars #tulip #photography #nature #OurFuture #ecosystems #rewilding #planet #blackandwhite

Tulip, flying away.

#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that

PEACE
is the choice of the brave & inspired.
:
WAR
is the choice of cowards & the deluded.
:
:
:
#EndAllWars #NoWars #war #EndGenocide #tulip #photography #bloomscroll #nature #OurFuture #EverythingIsConnected #blackandwhite

It actually happened with two I have used this month #TulipStudy & #DailyLichen. Doesn’t show anything any more. While #DailyNature only excludes some user’s recent posts.

Black and white open tulip against the sky.

YES, I brought some spare tulips to expand the #TulipStudy and to add a #Reminder that

WAR IS NEVER JUSTIFIED.
WAR IS DESTRUCTION.

Time to SAY NO!
Time to END ALL WARS!
:
:
#EndAllWars #NoWars #EndEcocide #EndGenocide #tulips #photography #bloomscroll #flowers #blackandwhite #nature #resist

Red tulip petals dancing against the blue sky.

I want to
LIVE and LOVE and LAUGH!

I want to
DANCE, CREATE and BE!

I want to
see a world where
HUMANS & PLANET THRIVE.

Time to refuse to play along.
Time to stop all wars.
Time to shape a future.

Time to restore
what we can of our planet.

#OurFuture #TulipStudy #photography #wars #planet

Tulip apparently raising its head towards the sun.

#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that

WAR IS NOT NORMAL,
not natural,
not a necessity,
not a sign of strength.

WAR IS DESTRUCTION
and we all pay the price for it.
:
:
:
#EndAllWars #NoWars #EndEcocide #EndGenocide #tulips #photography #bloomscroll #ClassicMono #mono #blackandwhite #ecocide #nature

Tulip and green leafs against blue sky.

#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that

A balanced person is unlikely to inflame the planet or to retaliate with war because anyone who fully appreciates life would not destroy it.’
:
:
:
#EndAllWars #war #EndGenocide #tulips #photography #bloomscroll #ClassicMono #mono #blackandwhite #ecocide #nature

Soft mono of tulip petals.

#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that

Dominance is not part of nature’s design because dominance unbalances the ecosystems.

Unbalanced ecosystems are prone to damage.

:
:
#EndAllWars #NoWars #EndEcocide #EndGenocide #tulips #photography #bloomscroll #ClassicMono #mono #blackandwhite #ecocide #nature

#TulipStudy

Taking these images is a dance with the flowers, the light, the wind, always new because the tulips change constantly, so do the weather and me.

The option to catch another essence in black & white is an added bonus.

And yes, wars are not normal.

#photography #bloomscroll #mono

Black and white of tulip against the sky.

#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that

WAR is
not normal,
not natural,
not a necessity,
not a sign of strength.

WAR IS DESTRUCTION
and we all pay the price for it.
:
:
:
#EndAllWars #NoWars #EndEcocide #EndGenocide #tulips #photography #bloomscroll #ClassicMono #mono #blackandwhite #resist #OurFuture

Wide open red tulip against the blue sky. The full quote from THE END OF ALL WARS is: ‘We normalised war. We made it into something that naturally occurs.’ ‘True. We observe our actions, and then we enshrine the observed as truth instead of realising that we can shape the way we act.’ ‘What exactly do you mean?’ ‘We know that nations have waged wars for centuries and so we assume that war is something we naturally do. There have been calls for peace—’ ‘—a long time ago,’ one of us mumbled. ‘True. But despite of these calls, we never truly questioned war. We said we don’t want wars, but we didn’t explore how to make sure that wars could never happen again.’ ‘We normalised war,’ one of us repeated thoughtfully. ‘But not just that. We normalised injustice, inequality, exploitation, hunger. In fact, we never challenged the way we deal with each other, the way we settle, the way we live, the way we do business. We didn’t dig deeper. Mostly we let things happen. And many of us simply accepted the systems around us as something that is, not as something we invented.’

#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that

We normalised war.

Not just that.

We normalised injustice, inequality, exploitation, hunger.

:
#EndAllWars #NoWars #EndEcocide #EndGenocide #tulips #photography #bloomscroll #flowers #doomscroll #nature #EverythingIsConnected

Zooming into the inner tangled life of a tulip. The full quote from THE END OF ALL WARS is: ‘We normalised war. We made it into something that naturally occurs.’ ‘True. We observe our actions, and then we enshrine the observed as truth instead of realising that we can shape the way we act.’ ‘What exactly do you mean?’ ‘We know that nations have waged wars for centuries and so we assume that war is something we naturally do. There have been calls for peace—’ ‘—a long time ago,’ one of us mumbled. ‘True. But despite of these calls, we never truly questioned war. We said we don’t want wars, but we didn’t explore how to make sure that wars could never happen again.’ ‘We normalised war,’ one of us repeated thoughtfully. ‘But not just that. We normalised injustice, inequality, exploitation, hunger. In fact, we never challenged the way we deal with each other, the way we settle, the way we live, the way we do business. We didn’t dig deeper. Mostly we let things happen. And many of us simply accepted the systems around us as something that is, not as something we invented.’

#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that

We said we don’t want wars, but we didn’t explore how to make sure that wars could never happen again.

We normalised war.

#EndAllWars #NoWars #EndEcocide #EndGenocide #tulips #photography #bloomscroll #flowers #doomscroll #nature #EverythingIsConnected #resist

Tulip flying in the wind against blue sky. The full quote from THE END OF ALL WARS is: ‘All wars are the result of a failure. A failure to communicate, a failure to cooperate, a failure to be rational, a failure to create, a failure to explore, a failure to empower. But the initial failure had been that we had never tried to end all wars — even though it is obvious that the only way to end one war is to end them all. The thinkers added: Curiosity is a key to end all wars because curiosity will allow us to explore instead of walling ourselves in, to open to the other instead of killing them, to evolve as a species instead of destroying ourselves.’

#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that

Curiosity is a key to end all wars because curiosity will allow us to explore instead of walling ourselves in, to open to the other instead of killing them, to evolve as a species instead of destroying ourselves.
:
:
#EndAllWars #tulips #photography #bloomscroll

A sea of tulip petals in the sun. The full quote from THE END OF ALL WARS is: ‘All wars are the result of a failure. A failure to communicate, a failure to cooperate, a failure to be rational, a failure to create, a failure to explore, a failure to empower. But the initial failure had been that we had never tried to end all wars — even though it is obvious that the only way to end one war is to end them all. The thinkers added: Curiosity is a key to end all wars because curiosity will allow us to explore instead of walling ourselves in, to open to the other instead of killing them, to evolve as a species instead of destroying ourselves.’

#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that

WAR IS NOT NORMAL.
WAR IS DESTRUCTION.
:
All wars are the result of a failure. A failure to communicate, a failure
to cooperate …
:
:
#EndAllWars #NoWars #EndEcocide #EndGenocide #tulips #photography #bloomscroll #flowers #doomscroll #nature #EverythingIsConnected

Inside a tulip, red & yellow.

#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that

WAR IS NOT NORMAL.
WAR IS DESTRUCTION.

There is no sense
in destruction.

There is no sense
in dominance.

Dominance
is a form of destruction.

:
:
:
#EndAllWars #NoWars #EndEcocide #EndGenocide #tulips #photography #bloomscroll #colourRed #OurFuture #flowers

Mono of tulip in the wind against the sky.

#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder
that war is
not normal,
not natural,
not a necessity,
not a sign of strength.

WAR IS DESTRUCTION
and we all pay the price for it.
:
:
:
#EndAllWars #NoWars #EndEcocide #EndGenocide #tulips #photography #bloomscroll #ClassicMono #mono #blackandwhite #ecocide #nature