Is a resting lion in awe of the Serengeti as the setting sun lights it afire? Does a whale marvel at the shifting blues and greens of the ocean? Is a soaring eagle filled with the majesty of the world below? Or are we the only species that experiences beauty? If we are, we don’t always and some of us never do. How can the breathtaking, seemingly unending variety of beauty that graces the thin blue skin of an insignificant world in an infinite universe be appreciated only some of the time by only one species that’s been around for only a flash in the two billion years that have witnessed millions come and go? If such an absurd idea can be even near true then perhaps the most beautiful thing on earth , the most beautiful thing in the universe is the appreciation of beauty itself.
Richard Talbot Hill
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