grace

🌱🌏🥦 she/her. Yogi, runner, reader, tree planter.

[el @astraleclerc]

want someone to love me so much they enter a relegation battle for me

[sean @_s0dapup]

joseph when he found out there was no room at the inn

[CWU @CWUnews]

Look out for each other this Christmas 🎄🎅🏼

[holly @AR23FC]

emma hayes with her team reminds me of abby lee miller with her dancers 😭

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[SHE scores bangers @SHEscoresbanger]

TELL’EM ALEX LET THEM KNOW!

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

In case you need another reminder of the MANY public benefits of urban trees — cooling streets; managing storm water; reducing obesity, disease & stress; increasing value, & MUCH more. Trees are a gift to our cities that keeps giving. Via @nature_org #StreetsAreBetterWithTrees

[grace @gracelee36]

Not just trees these past few months 🍄

[jen 🧌 @awfcjen]

Lauren Hemp knocking on the changing room door for Alex to let her in

[Phil Demers @walruswhisperer]

Let this haunting image of Lolita’s body being removed from her torturous prison cell of a tank be the Miami Seaquarium’s lasting legacy: Torture, lies and death. We must make them pay for their egregious abuse. FUCK THE MIAMI SEAQUARIUM!! #RIPLolita

[Butt Stuff @DMbuttstuff]

unfortunately i’m not addicted to the grind i am addicted to the unwind i love chilling and relaxation and overall taking it easy

[Nicole Pomarico @nicolepomarico]

Taylor Lautner is the only one doing celebrity right. Take the money from your giant franchise and enjoy your quiet and unproblematic life. Marry a nice person with the same name as you. Practice your backflips in obscurity until Taylor Swift asks to see you.

[keewa 🇵🇸 @keewa]

In "the west" we've so successfully alienated ourselves from the reality of what meat eating involves that the merest reminder sends us into fits of revulsion. If you eat meat, you just outsource this part to someone else

[Lucy Watson @imLucyWatson]

fuck horse racing.

[grace @gracelee36]

#Springwatch @BBCSpringwatch

[James @ChirpsByJames]

There is no crime more aggressively combatted in our society than someone depriving the wealthy of even more wealth

[Morning of my life @viewvalley]

@LondonEconomic BritishBroadcastingConservitives

[Animal Rising @AnimalRising]

THIS IS WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO STOP FROM HAPPENING.

Several horses fell during this race - how many will be killed due to their injuries?

Absolutely heartbreaking chaos for horses that never got a choice in the matter.

MAKE SURE THE GRAND NATIONAL NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN.
Sign our petition - this absolute disgrace of a "sport" should never, ever be allowed to continue.
https://t.co/vBcBInbuoI

#AnimalJustice #CancelTheGrandNational

[gem @probablyygem]

@hansmollman Millie Bobby Bon Jovi Brown has a ring to it