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| Gustav Klimt Fir Forest I, 1901 |
John Green, from the chapter "Our Capacity for Wonder" in The Anthropocene Reviewed
Marveling at the perfection of that leaf, I was reminded that aesthetic beauty is as much about how and whether you look as what you see. From the quark to the supernova, the wonders to not cease. It is our attentiveness that is in short supply. the ability and willingness to do the work that awe requires.
The context is that Green takes his two-year old son Henry to see some spectacular site and his son focuses on a single oak leaf. Green says he's immediately unhappy that his son doesn't see the grand thing, but then looks closely at the leaf and changes his attitude.
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