THE AWE OF DISCOVERY

As I have made clear in a few of my recent posts, I am so enjoying reading Planthropology. Every time I read one of Ken's books, the stories he tells and his photographs stir many things inside me that I feel passionate about. He cultivated in me a love for exquisite plants. Many of which are difficult to find. The plants featured here in this post being a few of them. While hunting for specific plants I have discovered many other extraordinary plants along the way. Many of them are now a part of my garden and will be awakening soon as winter is replaced with the warming temps of spring.



Today's reading, even though I have not yet seen the actual word in the book, has been about Fractals...geometric patterns that are repeated at ever smaller scales to produce irregular shapes and surfaces that cannot be represented by classical geometry. Approximate fractals are easily found in nature. These objects display self-similar structure over an extended, but finite, scale range. Examples include clouds, snow flakes, crystals, mountain ranges, lightning, river networks, cauliflower or broccoli, and systems of blood vessels and pulmonary vessels. The Japanese Maple leaf below being one example of a naturally occuring fractal.

These kind of discoveries, at least for me, so clearly point toward a Creator who is so good and has placed within the created world the absolute certainty of his abundance. Humans just don't believe it and due to their condition of being stuck in a place of fear, end up hoarding and raping and pillaging instead. We even take created things like plants that have powerful healing attributes built into their very structure and use then for harm.
There is endless possibility right in front of us all and we are making choices everyday as to what we will do with those possibilities. Will we be a part of healing and beauty or will we take those things and create something twisted with them instead?


Can you imagine if we all became gardeners? Let us beat some swords into plowshares.