“But what makes a flower beautiful?”, my younger one asked.
‘What’, he had said, not ‘why’, and that got me thinking. Everybody
agrees that flowers are beautiful but what makes them so? It can’t be the
colour- because I think many orange flowers are beautiful, though I can’t stand
the colour. The shape of the petals are attractive, but aren’t many petals
shaped no different from leaves? It could be the placement of the whorls, but
isn’t it the economy of lines that gives an anthurium its unique beauty?
Maybe flowers are beautiful because we want them to be so?
2 comments:
What a lovely question!
Now I need to go outside and take a look at my various flowers and see them from a different point of view.
@ Patricia- thank you for stopping by. And strangely, flowers become even more beautiful when you start questioning why they are so.
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