Sublime

Nature speaks in mathematics. Mathematics is us reverse engineering the language of nature, and we have only scratched the surface.

Roaches and ants and deer and fungi and bacteria and viruses and bamboo and eucalyptus and squirrels and vultures and mice and mosquitos and dandelions and so many other more collaborative life forms continue to proliferate, survive, grow. Sustain.

Of all the great works that we can experience, nature is the most absolute and enduring.

Marveling at the perfection of that leaf, I was reminded that aesthetic beauty is as much about how and whether you look as what you see. From the quark to the supernova, the wonders do not cease. It is our attentiveness that is in short supply, our ability and willingness to do the work that awe requires.

All humans, nature, elements, minerals, plants, insects, animals and seemingly non-living matter are all connected.

Within the richness of nature, the variations are easily noticeable. Some are shouts, others whispers. Even if an element seems static, whether a work of art in a museum or an everyday object in a kitchen, when we look at it deeply, we can see a newness.

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest.

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All good things are wild and free.