 - Monaco, Young Ballerinas, 1996
- 2001-07-01作者：：Jodi Cobb 点击：57 评论：0
- Young ballerinas wait in the wings at a recital.
 - Moscow, Russia, Still Life, 1986
- 2001-07-02作者：：Sam Abell 点击：66 评论：0
- What's the use? What's going on in the world? War and Peace hero Count Pierre Bezukhov looked at Moscow society in 1811 and wrestled with his conscience. Like this character in his epic novel, Tolstoy questioned his own life; he eventually became a v
 - Hagi, Japan, Tomoe Inn Window, 1984
- 2001-07-03作者：：Sam Abell 点击：36 评论：0
- Seeing with eyes of the heartknown as mono no aware in Japanesedescribes the way to understand this visual poem of a tree, framed by a window, against a backdrop of roof tiles at Hagi's Tomoe Inn. Set to haiku, a traditional Japanese poetry form, the
 - Bolivia, Chipaya Woman and Sheep, 1999
- 2001-07-04作者：：Maria Stenzel 点击：29 评论：0
- Scoured by gusting sand, a Chipaya woman follows her sheep home across the high plains. As more of her people leave to become farmworkers or housekeepers elsewhere in Bolivia and Chile, will the Chipaya's roots hold, or will they be pulled up and sca
 - France, Van Gogh Window, 1997
- 2001-07-05作者：：Lynn Johnson 点击：27 评论：0
- Framing a view that inspired van Gogh, a window lights an art therapy studio newly opened in the asylum to which the artist retreated, shaken by his illness. From Vincent van Gogh: Lullaby in Color, October 1997, National Geographic magazine
 - Texas, Texas Wildflowers, 1999
- 2001-07-06作者：：Vincent J. Musi 点击：27 评论：0
- Deep in the heart of Texas, the Hill Country's limestone heights bend with the Balcones Escarpment and unfold west for some 200 miles [320 kilometers]. The rocky terrain has its soft spots; spring-fed rivers overflow with bass, catfish, and perch. An
 - Australia, Desert Spadefoot Frog, 1999
- 2001-07-07作者：：Frans Lanting 点击：29 评论：0
- A desert spadefoot frog surfaces with a wary stare at Australia's Alice Springs Desert Park. Life hides in unexpected places: These frogs wait for rain deep in the outback's red sandsfor years, if need be. From The Variety of Life, February 1999, Nat
 - Borneo, Borneo Pitcher Plant, 1999
- 2001-07-08作者：：Mark W. Moffett 点击：34 评论：0
- Deadly beauty, the pitcher plant traps insects in its fluid-filled cup, where they drown. But Colobopsis ants that live in the tendril are unharmed. From Ants and Plants, February 1999, National Geographic magazine
 - England, Oxford Riverbank, 1999
- 2001-07-09作者：：Annie Griffiths Belt 点击：25 评论：0
- Hooked on history as a boy, 'Ned' [T.E. Lawrence] roamed the fields and riverbanks behind his home in Oxford, England, on the lookout for artifacts from Britain's age of chivalry. At about age ten, he learned the unhappy truth about his own family: H
 - Indonesia, Translucent Goby, 1999
- 2001-07-10作者：：David Doubilet 点击：35 评论：0
- The island nations of the tropical western Pacific cradle the richest coral life on our planet. These submarine archipelagoes are bathed in the warmest of waters, and the designs of life are fashioned like tapestries. Small creatures consort with gre
 - Canada, Prayer Flags, 1999
- 2001-07-11作者：：Gordon Wiltsie 点击：27 评论：0
- For luck, the team strung prayer flags, a custom from Himalayan climbs. From Hitting the Wall: First Ascent of a Baffin Island Peak, January 1999, National Geographic magazine
 - Mexico, Zencapopoca Volcano, 1999
- 2001-07-12作者：：Sarah Leen 点击：23 评论：0
- 'We call the volcano Zencapopoca now. That's 'always smoking' in Nahuatl,' says a man in Cholula, using the Aztec language still spoken locally. The town's pre-Hispanic pyramid, crowned today by a church, may have been built in reverence to El Popo;
 - Chad, Sahara Stone Arrowheads, 1999
- 2001-07-13作者：：George Steinmetz 点击：21 评论：0
- Stone arrowheads carved by early inhabitants of the Sahara are laid out in a neat circle atop that desert's sands.
 - Australia, Queensland Beach, 1997
- 2001-07-14作者：：R. Ian Lloyd 点击：20 评论：0
- An aerial view of surf crashing on the beach in Queensland, Australia.
 - Bangladesh, Meghna River Fishing Boat, 1993
- 2001-07-15作者：：James P. Blair 点击：20 评论：0
- A fishing boat plies the Meghna River at sunset.
 - Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian Sand Dune, 1972
- 2001-07-16作者：：Thomas J. Abercrombie 点击：21 评论：0
- Saudi man walks across a large sand dune.
 - Mangalore, India, Mangalore Tiger Dance, 1997
- 2001-07-17作者：：Michael K. Nichols 点击：17 评论：0
- Local people perform a ritual tiger dance.
 - Hawaii, Waikiki Surf Boards, 1938
- 2001-07-18作者：：Richard H. Stewart 点击：21 评论：0
- 'All a-board' at Waikiki for a surf ride! Sun-baked mermaids at Honolulu's celebrated beach line up their surfboards just before a swift dash on the crest of a curling wave. From Hawaii, Then and Now, October 1938, National Geographic magazine
 - Russia, Russian Farmer, 1998
- 2001-07-19作者：：Sisse Brimberg 点击：21 评论：0
- A Russion farmer wears an old military uniform and cap.
 - Australia, Scarlet Banksia, 1999
- 2001-07-20作者：：Frans Lanting 点击：28 评论：0
- A scarlet banksia blooms like fireworks in Australia's southwest. Not all biodiversity hot spots are tropical. This region's poor soils support 2,830 endemic plantsspecies that grow nowhere else on Earth. From The Variety of Life, February 1999, Nati
 - Paro, Bhutan, Bhutan Bath Time, 1991
- 2001-07-21作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：18 评论：0
- Three-year-old Tshering Dudup sits out bath time.
 - Japan, Mount Fuji Peak, 1982
- 2001-07-22作者：：George F. Mobley 点击：28 评论：0
- 'He who climbs Fuji once is a wise man; he who climbs it twice is a fool,' goes a Japanese saying. For centuries pilgrims have ascended 12,389-foot [3,776-meter] Mount Fuji. Now even as its slopes are scarred by erosion and defiled by tons of garbage
 - Indonesia, Spike-Cheek Anemonefish, 1999
- 2001-07-23作者：：David Doubilet 点击：18 评论：0
- A spine-cheek anemonefish swims over a field of purple-tipped anemone tentacles, adding its vibrant colors to the living spectrum of coral Eden. From Coral Eden, January 1999, National Geographic magazine
 - Australia, Aboriginal Teenager, 1996
- 2001-07-24作者：：Sam Abell 点击：19 评论：0
- Conjuring an image as old as his ancestors, an Aboriginal teenager dons a mask of mud while swimming in a billabong, or water hole. For nearly 2,000 generations his people have inhabitied this wild and strangely beautiful spike of land at the top of
 - Canada, Baffin Island Climber, 1999
- 2001-07-25作者：：Gordon Wiltsie 点击：29 评论：0
- Jared Ogden follows a painstakingly laid 'rope highway' toward the summit. Below stretches the ice lake of Stewart Valley, ringed by a fortress of largely unnamed, never climbed peaks. Says photographer Gordon Wiltsie, 'It was like discovering an Arc
 - Oregon, Mount Hood Peak, 1998
- 2001-07-26作者：：James C. Richardson 点击：28 评论：0
- Besides sheer beauty, Oregon's highest peak lures visitors with places to hike, camp, fish, and play. 'Some of the more active folks ski in the morning and then drive to Hood River to windsurf that afternoon,' says Bob Tilling, a USGS volcanologist m
 - Russia, Ballerina, 1998
- 2001-07-27作者：：Sisse Brimberg 点击：28 评论：0
- Dancers rehearse in the hometown of the Kirov Ballet.
 - Eastern India, Coal Miners, 1998
- 2001-07-28作者：：Joanna B. Pinneo 点击：22 评论：0
- Turning the planet inside out, miners 260 feet (80 meters) down in eastern India dig coal that will release carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into the atmosphere when burned. As emerging nations join their industrialized neighbors in burning more fossil fuels,
 - Yaloon, Oman, Omani Burqa, 1995
- 2001-07-29作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：44 评论：0
- Ghareeba Hamed Said Fox al Harsousi, like other Bedouin women of her country, wears the distinctive Omani burqa, or mask. Saffron powder gives her face a yellow cast.
 - Russia, Winter Palace, 1998
- 2001-07-30作者：：Sisse Brimberg 点击：34 评论：0
- From the cold grandeur of the Winter Palace, Catherine oversaw the expansion of her empire through wars with the Ottoman Empire and seizures of Polish land. To 19th-century revolutionary Alexander Herzen the palace perfectly symbolized the Russian st
 - Machu Picchu, Peru, Llama, 1999
- 2001-07-31作者：：Frans Lanting 点击：54 评论：0
- From their sacred city of Machu Picchu the Inca may have explored the nearby Vilcabamba. They and others have altered this landscape for centuries without destroying the larger balance of nature. From Wilderness Headcount, February 1999, National Geo
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