The Oldest Living Things In The World
For almost a decade, Rachel Sussman has been traveling the world to discover and document the Earth’s oldest organisms – living things over 2,000 years of age. Sussman unearths Earth’s “greatest stories of resilience, stories of tragedy and triumph, past and future, but above all stories that humble our human lives, which seem like the blink of a cosmic eye against the timescales of these ancient organisms – organisms that have unflinchingly witnessed all of our own tragedies and triumphs, our wars and our revolutions, our holocausts and our renaissances, and have remained anchored to existence more firmly than we can ever hope to be.” Enjoy her breathtaking photographs and illuminating thoughts in this incredible piece. { read more }
Be The Change
Today, try to notice the living things around you that have been around longer than you have. Take a moment to feel the interconnection to that which is beyond your own individual existence. |
Sangha of Auspicious Companions 
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