It’s sophisticated.
Famed Seventeenth-century English naturalist John Ray as soon as wrote that “magnificence is energy.”
If that’s true, the query is why magnificence, nevertheless we outline it, has such a strong impact. Furthermore, why does the sense of experiencing magnificence usually really feel the identical, whether or not we’re watching a baby’s sleeping face or a stunning sundown?
I don’t fake to have the solutions. However I hope that our capability to acknowledge and respect great thing about every kind is an indication of one thing deeper, a set off that calls for us to, because the Twentieth-century American writer Willa Cather wrote, “imprison for a second the shining, elusive second which is life itself.”
Maybe that’s the supply of magnificence’s energy and why, if you happen to’re like me, you will discover it all over the place, from nature and music to structure, artwork, patterns, and gesture — to call just a few examples.
Does that make magnificence’s energy an antidote to the unfolding horrors of life? Perhaps not. However within the transient transcendence it affords, magnificence’s energy stops time and in that dazzling nullity, enraptures and calms.
Within the photos that comply with, I spotlight among the Cather-like moments that made me take into consideration the sophisticated nature of magnificence’s energy whilst I used to be taking pleasure in its assorted expression.
