Plant some trees today! 🌳🌱💚 #ClimateChange #Environment #Trees

Plant some trees today! 🌳🌱💚 #ClimateChange #Environment #Trees

One of the best bookshops I've ever visited at the gradel I listed former Wool Exchange, Bradford - Built in the spirit of the great Flemish cloth halls — architecture not merely as utility, but as something capable of raising the human spirit.

„Ich bin die Letzte“, sagt Renate Aris, die als junges Mädchen vor dem Tiefflieger in einen Hauseingang flüchtete. „Die letzte Überlebende der jüdischen Gemeinde, die es vor dem Krieg in Dresden gab.“ Gegen das Vergessen von @renatusdeckert.bsky.social: 👉🏼📖 steady.page/de/renatus-d...

Happy 100th birthday — Sir David Attenborough! And thank you for inspiring compassion, curiosity, introducing viewers to the beauty of nature – and inspiring travel to unusual destinations around the globe. 🦔🦉🌍 #Wildlife #Nature #PlanetEarth

„So wurde die Lesung (...) zu einem lebendigen Impuls für kritisches Denken – und zu einer Mahnung, die Verantwortung der Gegenwart ernst zu nehmen.“ Ich freue mich sehr über die schöne Resonanz auf meine Lesung aus Victor Klemperers Tagebuch letzte Woche am Gymnasium Traben-Trarbach.

“To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.” 🌎🩵 — Carl Sagan (photo credit: NASA) #Artemins #Earth #Space #Moon

Lebanese cellist Mahdi Saheli playing Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian's Andantino in the ruins of southern Beirut. ❤️ #Lebanon #Iran #MiddleEast

Incredible scenes from today's pro-Magyar, anti-Orban rally in Budapest. Only 4 weeks left until the most consequential election in the EU this year 🇪🇺🇭🇺

Ungarn 4 Wochen vor der Parlamentswahl demonstrieren Hunderttausende für und gegen Orban in Budapest

“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.“ ― Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Mar. 15, 1933 — Sep. 18, 2020) Born #OnThisDay in New York City She would have turned 93 today. Still greatly missed. #Quotes #Life #OTD

Happy Birthday #Janosch! Er ist der Erfinder von Tiger, Bär und Tigerente wird heute 95 Jahre alt ♡

3 March 1983 — Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi (Hergé) died (aged 75). He was the creator of the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. It was one of the most popular comic book series of the 20th century, published in over 70 languages with sales over 200 million. #Drawings #Tintin #OnThisDay

It doesn’t get much better than this warm sun on your face, in what seems to be the first time in forever, and the sound of Orange-footed Geese flying over. ♡ #birdwatching #wildlife #spring

The White Rose — 22 February 1943: 21-year old Sophie Scholl is put to death in Munich for the 'crime' of distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. Her 24- year old brother Hans followed, then 23-year old Christoph Probst. ♡ #OnThisDay #NeverForgt #NeverAgain

“The face of truth is open, The eyes of truth are bright, The lips of truth are ever closed, The head of truth is upright. The soul of truth is flaming, The heart of truth is warm, The mind of truth is clear, And firm through rain or storm.” —Muhammad Ali, TRUTH #poem #poetry #quote

Every year on January 27 an empty old tram runs along the former Warsaw ghetto. It doesn't pick up any passengers in remembrance of those who were then no longer permitted to use a tram and were later deported and murdered. #HolocaustMemorialDay

❤️ Friendly reminder: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” #MLKDay (via: abc NEWS)

“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year.” ♡ (credits: IG/keckiphotography) #SnowHour #Winter #Nature

‪ #OnThisDay 55 years ago (Dec 7, 1970): „Wir sind … dahingeschritten, vor uns diese Mauer von Journalisten. Und plötzlich wurde es still, und einer drehte sich um und sagte: ‚Er kniet‘.“ — Egon Bar #WillyBrandt #Warschau #Hinstory 📰 www.deutschlandfunk.de/vor-50-jahre...

70 years ago (Dec 1, 1955), Rosa Parks stood up for her rights by sitting down, forever changing America. “Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.” — Rosa Parks #OnThisDay #History #CivilRights

“The chestnut trees turned yellow, The oak like sherry browned, The fir, the stubborn fellow, Stayed green the whole year round. But O the bonny maple How richly he does shine! He glows against the sunset Like ruddy old port wine.” ― Christopher Morley #autumn #trees #nature #poetry

#Paris Ein Palästinenser aus Gaza und ein französisch-israelischer Staatsbürger haben gemeinsam ein Restaurant eröffnet. Ihr Ziel: mit Hilfe gemeinsamer Geschmacksrichtungen Frieden zu kochen.

Eight years after Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered, her courage still burns brighter than the fear meant to silence her. Her fight for truth lives on in every journalist who refuses to be intimidated. #OnThisDay #PressFreedom #Malta

Great news: Green sea #turtles are no longer endangered! Their status in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is now Least Concern. The population of this species has increased by 28% since the 1970s thanks to global conservation efforts. This is a major win for #biodiversity! 🐢💙

Breaking news: María Corina Machado has been awarded the prize for ‘keeping the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness’ . The win dashes the hopes of US President Donald Trump. on.ft.com/4ocHAKY

"Nicht Klemperer, der allen Grund hätte, die Fassung zu verlieren, sondern der Ausleihbeamte bricht in Tränen aus ― so bestürzt ist er über das neue Verbot." Wie immer sehr schön aufgeschrieben von @renatusdeckert.bsky.social in "Wolken und Kastanien": 📖👉🏼 steady.page/de/renatus-d...

Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” nyti.ms/42kpGxt

“There is no single model of democracy, or of human rights, or of cultural expression for all the world. But for all the world, there must be democracy, human rights, and free cultural expression.” ― Kofi Annan #DemocracyDay #OnThisDay #Quotes

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” ― Mother Teresa 🖤 Aug. 26, 1910 – Sep. 5, 1997 #onthisday #quotes #life #love

Over the past few months, Paris has spent € 9.6 million unsealing the square in front of its city hall and simply transforming it into a new urban forest. The result is truly beautiful. 🌳💚 #climatechange #trees #city

Independent, free media stands at the core of democracy. Today, the European Media Freedom Act starts applying, designed to strengthen media freedom, independence, and pluralism within the EU ⬇️

Labyrinth mit Botschaft: Europa und der Wunsch nach Frieden — eine Hommage an die Einheit und Vielfalt gestaltet von Landwirt Uli Ernst auf seinem Feld in Utting am Ammersee. 🌿🕊️❤️ (Foto: Peter Kneffel/dpa) #Peace #Europe #Ukraine️ #World

A hundred years ago, the #Seine was declared too polluted to swim in. Today, it’s open again. A reminder that with investment and political will, rivers can be brought back to life. In the end, it’s a choice. The full story behind the Seine’s revival: www.bbc.com/news/article... 📍🇫🇷 🏊🏼 #France #Paris

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” 🌳💚 (clip: ecosia/IG) #climatechange #heatwave #trees

"Mindestens so sehr wie die alten Gemäuer haben es mir die Straßennamen angetan. An den Brodbänken, Auf der Rübekuhle, Schlägertwiete. Oder jener Name von geradezu biblischer Wucht: Langer Jammer." Eine Geschichte übers Abschied nehmen von @renatusdeckert.bsky.social: 👉🏼 steady.page/de/renatus-d...

Happy Moments ... ♡ (by Jean-Pierre Laffont) #summer #photography #bnw