Forest
Cathedrals of moss, light, and breath
Mountain
Where stone meets sky
Ocean
The blue that never ends
Desert
Quiet color, vast distance
Lake
Mirror water, mountain reflection
River
Restless, patient, alive
Meadow
Wildflowers and the long grass of summer
Tundra
Silence written in white and slate
Jungle
Tangled green, humid air, hidden water
Canyon
Time made visible in red rock
Glacier
Ancient blue, cold light, slow water
Coast
Where the land lets go
How we pick the biomes
The twelve biomes here are a compromise between the thirty or so categories an ecologist would draw and the four or five categories most wallpaper sites bother with. We wanted enough granularity that forest and jungle can have separate identities, that lake and river aren't collapsed into a single "water" bucket, and that tundra and glacier can each carry their own quiet weight without competing for the same images.
Each category is curated rather than auto-populated. Photographs are added to a biome only when the editorial team agrees the image is recognizably of that biome — not just shot in a place that happens to qualify. A misty river through a redwood grove can belong to either the forest or the river collection; we make a choice, we don't double-count.