MORNING SENTINEL • June 9, 2021
Natural beauty, it seems, comes in a lot of different shapes and sizes. What’s beautiful depends to some extent on how you look at your natural object. Not everyone finds jumping spiders or dung beetles cute – cuteness being a kind of beauty, let’s say. But some do. Some occurrences of natural beauty are recognized as “beautiful” by practically everyone, everywhere. Rose-red-orange light on a western horizon strikes whole ranges of emotion into people everywhere, as far as I know, from joy to awe to piety to grief. ~ Dana Wilde