There is a species of frog, now extinct except in captivity, that has learned how to gesture. Should the disappearance of amphibians serve as a warning to us?
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Some of the most beautiful flowers live in the darkest jungles. Some of the most beautiful fish live in the deepest ocean trenches. Some of the most beautiful people are at their most beautiful in the dark.
If a lion charges the line between two zebras, she catches grass and air. Yet with so many black and white lines all moving against each other, she has to define outlines and keep them crisp in her mind. When it isn’t zebras, things get even more complicated, don’t they?
So much in nature resembles or describes itself at different scales, from different angles. What have you noticed that is self-similar or symmetrical in that way?
The problem with beautiful things is when we look back at what we did trying to capture them. Luckily for me, data formats and storage formats change, so everything I wrote before 1999 has vanished.
The dramatic is in everything you see it in. Have you ever turned something you know well into something adventurous, whether in a story or just in your own mind?