Soil, water, air and light, under the direction of the seed, organize themselves into life.

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“Now we are all flowers.” That’s what leaves say just before they crinkle brown and blow to the ground.

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I watched the orange sun stretch across the highway to the massed trees, whose leaves stood on end, ecstatic at the touch of light.

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We set goals and as we meet them, to our surprise we sail past and surpass them. We see that they were there to propel us further. Life works on a need-to-know basis.

“Nature likes to hide itself” – Heraclitus.

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For humans, artificiality comes naturally, and naturalness is artifice.