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airplane, in the contours of a rocky cliff, in the shape of trees blowing in the wind, in the timing of the blossoms on a flower.
If nature were merely complex we might still find it beautiful. But it is because nature is always different that we find it fascinating.

The deep, inexorable variability of the natural world attracts us. We don't tire of watching a fire or a sunset because it's always different. Wave upon wave coil and roll shoreward, each making a signature splash; winds make the dunes crawl: river bottoms tumble and slide away; seas rise to the tide; cloud shadows pass over a mountainside. This variability exists at every level: in the color of the ocean from an

Curiosity is a luxury. The mark of a mind seeking to enlarge itself.

Revolution takes hold only when the populace is starving