Rupestrine is a fancy word for plants and animals that make their home on cliffs and crags. They’re the rock stars of the natural world, straight from the Latin word rūpēs, meaning steep cliff. Rock on!
Rupestrine
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The Canary Islands: Furry, Not Feathered
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The Canary Islands sound like they should be named after those cheerful little yellow songbirds, right? Sweet, delicate, maybe perched on a windowsill somewhere in the sun. Charming. Logical. Completely wrong.
The real story has a bit more bite.
The Path Isn’t A Straight Line
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The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths. ~ Barry H. Gillespie
How Sweet To Be A Cloud
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How sweet to be a cloud floating in the blue. ~ A. A. Hodge
Music In The Air
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There is music in the air. All you have to do is take as much as you require. ~ Edward Elgar
We Brought It With Us
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We did not come to this earth to gain our worth… we brought it with us. ~ Ardeth G. Kapp
Inspiration Is Generosity
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One of the quickest routes to inspiration is generosity.
The Sweet Simple Things
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It is the sweet simple things in life which are the real ones after all. ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Blossom Into Who We Were Meant To Be
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be. ~ Elizabeth Lesser
Pill Bugs Are Actually Crustaceans
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Pill bugs are actually crustaceans, not insects. They’re more like tiny, land-dwelling shrimp than other bugs. Pretty cool, huh?