The Serpent

“If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.”

-Robert Ingersoll

 Stella Tennant by Paolo Roversi for W magazine

 Raquel Zimmerman by Nick Knight for Alexander McQueen SS10

Photo of a tree snake taken in Kruger Park, South Africa