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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 26/03/2026

OFFLINE I’ll be off for a bit to work on the final week of CAMPAIGNS FOR OUR FUTURE in book 4. See the 🧵 for more. It’s great to share my work with you, and I’m grateful for every like, repost & comment. If you’d like to get in touch, visit my website: charlie-alice-raya.org #writing #photography

Shallow water on the beach, rippling in the wind and reflecting the sunlight.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 26/03/2026

#DailyNature & #photography Under the willow tree March 2026 : : : The old willow in the park wears her twigs like golden hair, letting it dance in the wind. #Berlin #trees #willows #nature

Large willow, shot taken from below a thick assembly of twigs , blowing in different directions.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 26/03/2026

I close the #TulipStudy with this image and add a #Reminder that All life is precious and so is living. For too long have we suffered systems which serve warmongers, billionaires & the power hungry. Time to refuse to be complicit. Time to choose to live. #photography #tulip #EndAllWars #mono

Mono (almost white) detail of a tulip, it looks like silk blowing in the wind.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 26/03/2026

CELEBRATING NATURE If we take a moment to see the beauty, strength & intricacy of this old tree, maybe we begin to grasp that trees aren’t easily replaceable. Let’s make the future of trees & forests our concern. They are amazing. When nature thrives, we thrive. #trees #nature #photography #mono

Black and white of two tall, old stone pines, looking from below at their impressive canopies.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 26/03/2026

#DailyLichen & #DailyReminder that : Mutually beneficial relationships create worlds. Divides only hold us back. : #LICHEN A colony of algae or cyanobacteria living in a mutually beneficial relationship with multiple fungus species & along other bacteria. #fungifriends #OurFuture #strongertogether

A splash of orange sunburst lichen in a nest of white lichen on a branch.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 26/03/2026

REFLECTIONS We can sink or we can swim. We can swim alone until exhaustion drowns us or we come together to build rafts. We can fight for the best position on the raft or we can try something new band together live. #reflections #climateAction #OurFuture #photography #water #light #blue #planet

Twinkling lights on the rippling blue surface of a lake.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 26/03/2026

CELEBRATING NATURE Often blossoms get all the attention when leaves have so much to offer, too: their shapes, textures, veins, colours. AND it’s the leaves which produce sugars as nourishment for the plant, and oxygen for all. #nature #leaves #photosynthesis #trees #spring #photography #climate

Young leaves on a branch illuminated by the sun.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 26/03/2026

#TulipStudy and a #Reminder that WARS are a human invention, not human nature not a necessity. What is vital is that we come together & restore our planet. : : #EndAllWars #NoWars #EndGenocide #tulip #photography #bloomscroll #nature #OurFuture #rewilding #climate #EverythingIsConnected #mono

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 26/03/2026

GOOD MORNING 🌍🌎🌏✊🕊️ Troubling times call for courage & action. The lone rider might be strong together we are stronger. Those who need us to be divided reiterate that there’s nothing we can do. I take the challenge & say: let’s find out what we are capable of. #photography #nature #OurFuture

Tall reeds in the foreground, bathed in evening light. Beyond them a lake and a forest reflected in it.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 25/03/2026

GOOD NIGHT 🌙 Maybe the worst about us is that we’ve built so many inner defences. Not only high convoluted. Defences against each other & nature against building together rethinking. If we hadn’t we’d lose our freedom. The freedom we already lost when we built all those walls? #photography

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 25/03/2026

GOING OFFLINE I’ll be online tomorrow. From Friday on, I’ll focus on completing the final chapters for CAMPAIGNS FOR OUR FUTURE (days 8-1). If you’d like to get in touch, visit my website for contact details: charlie-alice-raya.org #photography #OurFuture #nature #seashells #coast #eck

Upright standing open seashell lit by the sun, while the wet beach is in the shadow.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 25/03/2026

#DailyLichen & #DailyReminder that Mutually beneficial relationships create worlds. Divides only hold us back. : : : #LICHEN A colony of algae or cyanobacteria living in a mutually beneficial relationship with multiple fungus species & along other bacteria. #fungifriends #OurFuture #planet #moss

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 25/03/2026

#TulipStudy and a #Reminder that WARS ONLY SERVE the weapons industry. There’s no justification to tolerate suffering & destruction. : : #EndAllWars #NoWars #EndGenocide #tulip #photography #bloomscroll #nature #OurFuture #EverythingIsConnected #blackandwhite

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 25/03/2026

#DailyNature & #photography Kitchen window chestnut March 2026 ///// It’s stormy, raining. I watch from the kitchen window. I like rough weather. But today the light-green chestnut buds swaying in the wind steel the show, leaves emerge laughing definitely in the face of the storm. #trees #storm

Wet branches thickly entangled, leaves emerging, looking like opening flowers.
Hardly noticeable in the background the wall of a building across the road.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 25/03/2026

THE BODY & NATURE’S DESTRUCTION Depleted nature = depleted body Depleted nature = depleted mind Depleted nature = depleted soul Healing nature = healing the body Healing nature = healing the mind Healing nature = healing the soul #nature #OurFuture #rewilding #healing #photography #body #health

Old tree, part of it seems dead, but there’s one massive branch visible, growing high, branching, an impressive canopy. Photo from last September, taken near Lübeck.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 25/03/2026

GOOD MORNING 🌍🌎🌏✊🕊️ But we were lost and we knew it. We were lost and with us everything that was still dear to us. Little enough. And our planet suffered coughed spat fire flooded died. We were lost and so we decided to learn to trust. #birds #birdsky #geese #nature #photography #OurFuture 🧵

Gretlag goose about to submerge its head in the shallow water, ripples around its head.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 24/03/2026

GOOD NIGHT 🌏🌎🌍🌙 : : : #TheRoad #Berlin #UrbanGaze #photography #blackandwhite #greenBerlin #nature Park am Gleisdreieck, Berlin 22 March 2026

A narrow winding track through a somewhat rewilded area next to the rails. The trees form a high arch above the track.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 24/03/2026

#REWILDING spotlight I admit the *saved* put me off at first, but the conversation between Eoghan Daltun and Saoirse McHugh is balanced, insightful & well worth listening to. Rewilding is our chance to restore what we can of our ecosystems and to open new chapters for nature, communities & us. 👇👇

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 24/03/2026

: : : Reaching out but never touching. Seen but never heard. Long is the night my friend the mirror clear what do you see what do you hear? Silence. Reflected. Reaching out. : : : #OurFuture #nature #poetry #photograhy #mirrored #reflections #forestfriends #scape #silence #mono #blackandwhite

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Background: a pine forest reflecting in a small lake
Foreground: the long branches of a bare tree seem to reach out towards their reflection in the water.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 24/03/2026

#DailyNature & #photography Resting brain March 2026 : : I didn’t make it out in the light, so I’ll take a joker tonight: The resting brain after a long day’s plight. #breathe #rest #philsky #neurology #brain #fungifriends #shroomscroll PS: I love that everything natural looks great even dried.

A dried mushroom in lamplight on brown paper, looking a bit like a brain. Notebooks in the background.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 24/03/2026

‘A mirror it is — but a mirror of redemption because once we walk through it, we are on a path of healing and might shape a world where we & nature thrive.’ book 4, day 7 #photography #blackandwhite #mirrored #reflections #art #trees #spreewald #planet #nature photograph Spreewald, 23 March 2026

A short fir and a slender bare tree mirrored in the lake. The edges of the branches dissolve into wisps of motions.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 24/03/2026

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 24/03/2026

For #ThickTrunkTuesday Last Wednesday, I came across this giant in the Müritz Nationalpark. A stark reminder how amazingly big trees can grow. And a reminder that growing takes decades & centuries. Mature trees can’t be mass produced. #trees #forestfriends #photography #nature #OurFuture #climate

Very old tree with four major branches sharing one massive but shortish trunk.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 24/03/2026

#TulipStudy and a #Reminder that planet Earth is one planet, and we are its people. We don’t need to fight for more exploitation. We need to restore our planet. #EndAllWars #NoWars #EndGenocide #tulip #photography #bloomscroll #nature #OurFuture #rewilding #EverythingIsConnected #blackandwhite

Open tulip raising its petals towards the sun.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 24/03/2026

“Humanity has just endured the 11 hottest years on record. When history repeats itself 11 times, it is no longer a coincidence. It is a call to act.” And yes, we can act. We can make the planet our concern. Together. Let’s be bold and rethink our world. #OurFuture #planet #nature #oceans #climate

theguardian.com

Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high

State of the Climate report finds Earth’s energy has moved dangerously out of balance, with oceans absorbing vast majority of trapped heat

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 23/03/2026

Single yellow lichen, looks like a flat flower on a branch, against a blurred blue sky with tree branches.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 23/03/2026

REFLECTIONS Occasionally I write that the mistakes of our ancestors got us into all our messes. It’s true that some of the roots of our troubles go back millennia. But today, one of the people I talked 🧵1/2 #ancestors #OurFuture #photography #reflections #mirrored #lake #trees #clouds #nature

Reflections in a lake (Schlosspark Lübbenau).
Blue sky in the left upper corner, mostly clouds and distorted branches of trees.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 23/03/2026

REFLECTIONS I occasionally train my Zen (which still needs work) by chatting with strangers about nature, wearing curiosity like a shield against impatience. Today, a gran pushed a mower along the street & without prompting told me he had to mow. 🧵1/4 #gardening #mowing #rewilding #photography

Spreewald canal, large tree reflected in the water. A green stripe of grass separates the image. I added saturation to give the grass extra intensity.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 23/03/2026

REFLECTIONS ‘Let them end the wars before they ask anything of us,’ I was told today when chatting with someone about the state of our planet. I’ve heard this before & I kind of get it. Governments around the world 🧵1/2 #reflections #OurFuture #photography #mirrored #nature #trees #spreewald

Clouds, blue sky and trees reflected in the canal.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 23/03/2026

For #mushroomMonday & #fungifriends, found today, Schlosspark Lübbenau, Spreewald. The forms & colours of this Fomes fungi! Great! Plus: EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED :-) #photography #mycology #shroomscrolling #nature

Three-part Fomes. Two layerings in white and a third above them, connecting them.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 23/03/2026

Kayaking in the Spreewald today was not the recharging escape I’d hoped for. There were too many old felled trees & cut branches to ignore. What the heck are we doing? was the thought most often on my mind. #OurFuture #ecocide #forestfriends #rewilding #photography #spreewald

Photo taken from a kayak, massive roots along the shore, the old tree freshly cut, all of it reflected in the rippling water.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 23/03/2026

#DailyNature & #photography ::: Forest in the river River in the forest :::..::: March 2026 : : : The Spreewald, south of Berlin, is a forest nestled in a web of the Spree’s river arms. I was lucky to get a kayak for a short tour. : #rivers #spreewald #paddling #forestfriends #forest

Photo taken from a kayak. Tall trees reflected in the water. A yellow bush on the right shines bright.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 23/03/2026

FOCUS I wonder what keeps us from focusing. Is it the sheer overload of voices with answers, everyday stress, or lack of awareness? FOCUS on what? - uniting globally - visions & stories for a world where people & planet thrive - restoring our planet #OurFuture #photography #moss #nature #climate

The focus is on a rich patch of moss, blurred in the background a large bare tree.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 22/03/2026

#TulipStudy and a #Reminder that WARS END when enough of us say NO! : Why should we? Because the only thing wars achieve is destruction. And we all pay the price for it. : : #EndAllWars #NoWars #EndGenocide #tulip #photography #bloomscroll #nature #OurFuture #EverythingIsConnected #blackandwhite

Detail, view into the tulip. There’s a dynamic as if it was reaching for something.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 22/03/2026

WHERE ARE WE? where do we go from here? I’d like to think of us as the living seedling breaking through the rouble. We don’t have to accept the world as it is! We can refuse to play along. We can shape a world where people & planet thrive. #wildflowers #OurFuture #photography #bloomscroll

Breaking through a layer of dried leaves, a Siberian Squill, still closed a blue bud, a stranger in Berlin, a native in Russia, the Caucasus and Turkey.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 22/03/2026

Sunburst lichen on a branch on the ground.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 22/03/2026

#DailyNature & #photography Berlin Spring March 2026 : : The city noises seem to drown out everything, and yet spring blossoms glow defiantly in the sun, not asking for attention. Those who can escape the rush for a breath are filled with wonder seeing them. #spring #berlin #urbangaze #city #nature

Large and in focus three white plum blossoms in the sun. Blurred a Berlin street in Schöneberg, this afternoon.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 22/03/2026

Thoughts on REWILDING brought up by Eoghan Daltun’s thread 🧵 Who shapes the lands? Who disturbs the soils? Who creates habitats? Who prepares the grounds for flowers? Find my contenders in my thread 🧵 #rewilding #OurFuture

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 22/03/2026

#DailyNature & #photography :/: BERLIN LICHEN March 2026 : : : I was asked the other day whether lichen only exist near water. No, lichen (different kinds) exist pretty much everywhere, including on the stone flower box on my balcony which hosts a variety of lichen. : #lichen #fungifriends

Blurred view down to the busy road. In focus a circular splash of a light green lichen and some wildflower leaves.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 21/03/2026

: GOOD NIGHT 🌙 with Berlin Plum Blossoms the perfect tongue twister to see you off to sleep :-) : : : #BerlinNight #urbangaze #spring #bloomscroll #photography #night #plumtree #tonguetwister #sweetdreams

Plum tree laden with white blossoms, illuminated by streetlights, against the black sky.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 21/03/2026

about THE END OF THE WORLD A lot of people seem to expect the end of the world with a shrug as if it was just another item on the menu. Here’s how I see: Our world is a 🧵 #OurFuture #extinction #ecocide #ClimateAction #photography #naturesArt #nature #art #philsky #greensky #econsky #trees #bark

Tree bark, several shades of white and brown, flat, partly broken pattern. A red- brown part looks a bit like a dented heart.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 21/03/2026

FLOWER BOXES Lichen & some moss thrive on the stone flower box on my balcony. Using stone boxes seems an easy way to add spaces for biodiversity, a habitat for lichen. Nothing grows on the plastic flower box.🧵 #lichen #berlin #biodiversity #flowers #gardening #urbanism #photography #balcony #moss

Corner of the stone flower box with white and yellow lichen and moss.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 21/03/2026

Sunburst lichen in a bath of sunlight and shadows, on a tree trunk.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 21/03/2026

REDIRECT As the constant traffic noise is my companion again, a new thought occurs to me: how active we are, constantly driving here & there like busy bees. What if we used this drive to rewild our lives & nature, to REDIRECT our energies to build a future instead? #photography #mono #urbangaze

Street in Berlin, photo taken through a window covered in raindrops. This is from my collection.

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