My photos here show the often-fragile beauty of our world. My hope is they will encourage viewers to act in ways that will help save it from the destruction we humans constantly cause to nature.
This one shows the natural beauty of an ancient tree surrounded by newer relatives in an English forest. Trees provide a significant contribution to the balancing act that is natureās way of regulating our world to make it inhabitable for other life forms. Ancient trees absorb considerable amounts of airborne pollutants, take in carbon dioxide, and expel oxygen. They do so with great efficiency once they are mature specimens. Saplings do not do the same job. But we are destroying ancient forests full of mature trees at an alarming rate, to spread agriculture to feed cattle we then eat, to grow young palm trees we can use for the oil they produce, for urban expansion, and, of course, to the huge fires, both wild and manmade, that destroy enormous numbers of these precious givers of life. Perhaps itās time we stopped our wanton self-destruction and gave our older trees the protection they merit?
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If you comment, like, and share the post, itāll help spread the joy of natural beauty to as many people as we can. Thatāll help fight the rapidly approaching climate emergency and species extinctions.
I post these every Saturday, but also post one at the end of each day, with the hashtag #ourworldiswonderful, on FaceBook and on Twitter. Join me there if you wish.
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A few of my pictures also appear in the Gallery.
If youāre interested, youāll find 2,500 large HD images on Picfair, which can be purchased as digital files, or as art quality prints on paper or canvas. The small fee helps maintain the gear and software quality digital photography demands.
Stuart Aken 
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We are blessed with these beautiful trees and must protect them. My heart breaks with what is happening now.
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I join you in the heartbreak, MrsWayfarer. It’s why I post these daily pictures of natural beauty and also do a daily tweet of the same sort of picture. The more we can share these around, the more people will be exposed to the beauty of the world in which we live.
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That is such an old beauty, Stuart. This is very true; the older trees provide much better air filtering for us humans. Protecting them shouldnāt have to be so difficult, but greed prevails.
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Unfortunately, Lynette, the worlds financial systems, all based ultimately on capitalism, depend on greed. Until those in authority understand that, and those who vote them into power become educated into the reality of their support, we will continue to destroy the planet that nurtures us.
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The delicate greens of spring are lovely – too lovely to last!
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Yes, Noelle, July will probably bring the inevitable dust to dull them.
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Yup. We’re already HOT and humid here. Except for swimming, a late coffee on the patio or an early morning walk, we live inside this time of year.
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Here in the UK we’re expecting June to break yet another temperature record. So many have been broken so far this year. Hot and humid here, too! Makes our walks less refreshing and more physically tiring than they used to be!
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