Sublime

What’s something about the natural world that fascinates you?

Nature prefers growth that is either vertigo-inducing or decidedly softer: exponentials and logarithms appear everywhere in its equations. Nature is, by its own nature, nonlinear.

“Billions of years ago, a single, fluke, self-copying cell learned how to turn a barren ball of poison gas and volcanic slag into this peopled garden. And everything you hope, fear, and love became possible.”

Nature is imagination itself. Let us not re-imagine it, then, but begin to imagine anew, with nature as our co-conspirator: our partner, our comrade and our guide.

La Nature donne satisfaction à un plus noble besoin de l’homme – l’amour du beau. Les anciens Grecs appelaient le monde Κοσμος, « beauté ». Les choses sont ainsi organisées, que la faculté plastique de l’œil humain est telle que les formes primordiales, le ciel, les montagnes, les arbres, les animaux nous procurent un plaisir qui leur est propre, –

It’s important for us to realize that even small interventions can have huge consequences, and we’d do better to keep our hands off everything in nature that we do not absolutely have to touch.