Heroes Not Zombies

Do you ever have that experience where something you see just stops you in your tracks? I do…..often! Plants are especially able to do that.

Just look at this one. Look at the structure as the bud unfolds. I can’t see something like this without astonishment. How on Earth does such an elaborate and delicate structure ever emerge? How does it develop like this, both in the evolutionary sense over millions of years and in the present time over a single life cycle of seed to plant to budding and blossoming.

How does each element of a flower like this emerge from the undifferentiated seed to produce just the right shape, just the right colour, in just the right place?

I don’t have answers to these questions but that’s part of the beauty of it – it’s that sense of wonder and awe which is fabulous in its own right, not dependent on any explanation or “answer”.