Constance Adler 💫

Sagt der Fürst zum Kirchenmann: „Halt du sie dumm, ich halt sie arm.“

[Constance Adler 💫 @Imlandris1]

@JKraschl „Singen Protestsänger oft schaurig,
das Leben sei nur mies und traurig,
bedenk: Die Gage hilft den armen Sängern,
dies miese Leben zu verlängern.“

(Helmut Zöpfl, Eine schöne Zeit)

[Constance Adler 💫 @Imlandris1]

@ernsterjuenger Ja. Aber wer ist „Niemand“? 🤔

[Constance Adler 💫 @Imlandris1]

@buschilein70 Linsensuppe mit Würstchen 😋!

[Constance Adler 💫 @Imlandris1]

Pssst, er sonnt sich:

[Constance Adler 💫 @Imlandris1]

@JKraschl Es gibt Leute, die sich keine Gedanken über Konsequenzen machen.

[Constance Adler 💫 @Imlandris1]

Spätsommer in Ungarn:

Ich sitze draußen und lausche dem Grillenkonzert; die Hirsche haben Brunftzeit, während ich einen Frötsch genieße.

Schön.

[Constance Adler 💫 @Imlandris1]

Diese „Welt“ kann eine „Hölle“ sein, oder ein „Himmel“.

Es kommt darauf an, was man daraus macht.

[Constance Adler 💫 @Imlandris1]

@KreuzritterKre1 Jeden Tag um 3 Uhr wusste sie, um die Gassigehzeit und wollte mit.

[Constance Adler 💫 @Imlandris1]

@KreuzritterKre1 Ja. Und zum zweiten Mal diese Katze, die jeden Tag mit Gassi ging,

[Constance Adler 💫 @Imlandris1]

@KreuzritterKre1 Ja!

Meine Kinder waren immer froh, einen Hund als Begleiter zu haben.

Wir hatten auch immer diese eine Katze, die mit den Hunden mit Gassi ging.

[Constance Adler 💫 @Imlandris1]

@KreuzritterKre1 Wie schön 🫶❣️

Ich habe mittlerweile zwei.

Ein Hund hat viel mehr zu geben, als dass er Mühe macht.

Sich über die Rasse zu informieren, wäre hilfreich, denn je nach Temperament haben sie unterschiedliche Ansprüche.

[Constance Adler 💫 @Imlandris1]

@SandriaGirrith Diese Mischung löst Husten von den Bronchien. Ich hatte 6 Wochen Probleme durch eine Klimaanlage. Mir hat es geholfen.

[Constance Adler 💫 @Imlandris1]

@Helheimer Es wird sich auf zuckerhaltige Getränke reduzieren und Zack sind alle glücklich.

[Constance Adler 💫 @Imlandris1]

Wie naiv ich war, dass ich dachte, dass da, wo ich herkomme, die gleiche Liebe gilt.

(Mein jüngeres wiedergeborenes Ich)

[Constance Adler 💫 @Imlandris1]

@fritzewillem1

Magst Du?

https://t.co/OCAdiHxZhv

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Locals called her a witch. Animals followed her through the forest. A lynx slept beside her. A wild boar lived in her bed for 17 years. A crow stole official documents and shredded them on her roof. She lived 30 years in a wooden lodge with no electricity, confiscated illegal traps meant for endangered lynx, got charged with theft, and told the court: "With only 12 lynx left, who are we to decide this forest should end?" She saved the last primeval forest in Europe. Her family were famous painters. She chose this instead.
In the village near the ancient Białowieża Forest, the locals didn't know what to make of Simona Kossak.
They told stories of how wild animals followed her through the mist, how birds landed on her hands, and how deer approached her without a trace of fear.
Some called her a witch. Others called her a fairy.
But Simona was neither. She was a scientist who believed that the modern world was too loud to hear what nature had been trying to say for thousands of years.
Simona came from one of the most famous artistic families in Poland.
Her father, Jerzy Kossak, her grandfather Wojciech, and her great-grandfather Juliusz were all celebrated painters who immortalized Polish landscapes and history.
She was expected to carry on their legacy.
Instead, she chose a completely different path.
After studying biology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Simona took a position at the Mammal Research Institute in Białowieża in 1971.
There, on the border of Poland and Belarus, she found the last remaining fragment of the vast primeval woodland that once covered all of lowland Europe.
She saw the ancient forest under a full moon on her first night and said: "It's here or nowhere else."
She moved into a tiny wooden forester's lodge called Dziedzinka. It had no electricity, no plumbing, and no modern comforts.
She brought furniture from her family home in Kraków, oil lamps, books, an antique iron, a lace tablecloth, and a shotgun from the family collection, which she hung by the door.
What most people would have considered a temporary hardship became her home for the next three decades.
She was never alone in that silence.
A few months after she arrived, a photographer and naturalist named Lech Wilczek moved into a nearby building. At first, they kept their distance.
Then Lech brought home a one-day-old wild boar.
The task of raising this tiny creature together changed everything. They named her Żabka, meaning "Froggy," and she grew into an enormous boar that lived with them for 17 years, standing by their legs like a loyal dog, demanding to be caressed, and sleeping in their bed.
Lech and Simona fell in love. He became her lifelong partner, and over three decades, his photographs documented their extraordinary life together in the forest.
Their household grew into a menagerie.
Simona raised a lynx named Agata, who slept curled beside her each night.
A mischievous crow named Korasek became the terror of Białowieża. He stole cigarette cases, scissors, workers' pay, and official documents. He attacked cyclists, ripped apart bicycle seats, and once snatched a penalty ticket from a forest guard's hand, flew to the roof of Dziedzinka, and shredded it with his claws.
The locals said Korasek was punishment for their sins. Simona laughed until she cried when she heard these stories.
She also cared for moose, whom she named Cola and Pepsi, along with dogs, rats, peacocks, and owls.
Her rapport with wild creatures was so deep that she called herself a "zoo-psychologist." While other scientists studied animals from behind glass, Simona lived among them, observing that they had complex emotions, distinct personalities, and bonds as meaningful as any human relationship.
But her life was not a fairy tale. It was a battle.
In the winter of 1993, Simona discovered that researchers from the Polish Academy of Sciences had placed illegal steel jaw traps in the forest to capture endangered wolves and lynx for radio-collar studies.
She confiscated the traps and refused to return them.
The scientists charged her with theft. She was taken to court.
During the hearing, Simona told the prosecution that with a population of just 12 lowland lynx, the traps represented a lethal threat to the only remaining population of their kind in all of Europe.
The case became a turning point for how research was conducted in the forest.
When logging interests threatened the ancient trees, Simona fought again. She wrote letters, filed lawsuits, produced award-winning films and radio broadcasts about the forest, and used every platform she had to make the world listen.
"This forest has survived for ten thousand years," she would say. "Who are we to decide it should end on our watch?"
Think about what Simona Kossak chose.
Born into Poland's most famous artistic family. Expected to paint. Chose biology instead.
Could have worked in any comfortable university lab. Moved to a wooden lodge with no electricity or plumbing. Stayed 30 years.
Could have observed animals from behind glass. Lived with a wild boar in her bed, a lynx curled beside her, a crow shredding official documents on her roof.
Found illegal traps threatening the last 12 lowland lynx in Europe. Confiscated them. Got charged with theft. Went to court anyway.
"This forest has survived for ten thousand years. Who are we to decide it should end on our watch?"
She chose it all. And she saved the forest.
In 2000, Poland awarded her the Golden Cross of Merit for her scientific achievements and conservation work. In 2003, she was appointed Director of the Department of Natural Forests, a position she held until her death.
Simona Kossak died on March 15, 2007, at the age of 63, after a serious illness.
Lech Wilczek continued to live at Dziedzinka after she was gone. He carried on their work, wrote her biography, and published never-before-seen photographs of their life together.
He died in 2018.
A street in Białowieża now bears Simona's name, and Dziedzinka has been designated a monument.
Today, the Białowieża Forest stands as one of the last true wildernesses in Europe. Bison still graze in its clearings. Wolves and lynx still move through its shadows.
And if you walk the paths that Simona once traveled with Agata by her side and Korasek on her shoulder, you might understand what she meant when she said that humans are just one part of nature, and there are no more or less important parts in it.
She chose silence over noise, simplicity over comfort, and the company of wild creatures over the applause of the world.
And in doing so, she saved a forest that had been standing since before human memory began.
The next time someone tells you that comfort is necessary, that modern conveniences are essential, that choosing an unconventional path means giving up too much—
Now you know about the woman from Poland's most famous artistic family who lived 30 years in a wooden lodge without electricity, slept beside a lynx and a wild boar, had a crow that terrorized the village, confiscated illegal traps and got charged with theft, told a court "who are we to decide this ten-thousand-year-old forest should end," and saved the last primeval forest in Europe.
The locals called her a witch or a fairy.
She was neither.
She was a scientist who understood that the modern world is too loud to hear what nature has been saying for thousands of years.
And she chose to listen.
via Voices from the past
#AnimalLivesMatter #NatureLovers #HERstory

[Constance Adler 💫 @Imlandris1]

@wildschytz Wusstet ihr, daß Bier früher (bis ins 15. Jahrhundert) mit Bilsenkraut anstatt mit Hopfen gebraut wurde, weshalb man es ob seiner anregenden Wirkung schon zum Frühstück trank?

[Constance Adler 💫 @Imlandris1]

Sieh mal 🤩:

@Stephan95105295

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

These are vintage lightbulbs from the 1930s

[Constance Adler 💫 @Imlandris1]

@Elke_Austenat Was, wenn es weder den einen, noch den anderen gibt, sondern nur ein Bewusstsein, das in der Dualität sich selbst zurechtfindet und nach Höherem strebt?