Learning From Nature

The forest is an fascinating combination of fast, fleeting and slow, eternal. A raindrop flew by. You won’t see it again. Trees stand here for a couple hundreds years. They are going to stay for a couple hundred years more.

”Rain in an Oak Forest”, Ivan Shishkin, 1891, oil on canvas.

The older I get, the more it seems to me that every beautiful thing is created by nature. Human creations are pitiful semblance, a distorted copy. It’s a classic thought of a fixed mindset, and I am yet to learn how to deal with it properly.