New Jersey Wildflowers
I came across these beautiful #spring flowers in the wooded area of Laurel Acres park in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. I am guessing the name for these wonderful flowers would be Wood Anemone. If I wasn’t under lock down, I would hike back there to see the leaf pattern, maybe another day.
Sometimes I find the simpler things to be more elegant in life’s journey.
“I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say, “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is, but you as a scientist take this all apart, and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty. First, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is … I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean, it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.”
– Richard Feynman (1918 – 1988)
The Beauty of the Flower
Pretty white flower
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