“There are underlying patterns in nature—taxonomies, classifications, orders of relation, genealogies, laws. There are days when I am content to contemplate these patterns, as described by science on the printed page, as one might read in science the score on a Bach fugue, marveling at the carefully woven threads of counterpoint that provide the underlying structure of the music. And there are other days when the music is enough, in the ear alone, unanalyzed, resonant, imperative, all-enclosing…”
-From “Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God” by Chet Raymo.
If you get lost in the magnificent detail, you can overlook the overall grandeur. Today will be a good day to find a tree, sit back and enjoy the richness of the fugue.
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