How can we ever stop looking?

1. Grey-headed Junco 2. Western Purple Finch 
Baird, Spencer Fullerton. 1860. The birds of North America : the descriptions of species based chiefly on the collections in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution with the co-operation of John Cassin and George N. Lawrence Atlas (1860), Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Smithsonian

In Upstream, Mary Oliver connects the forms of things in nature and the way that calls us to attention

Form is certainty. All nature knows this, and we have no greater adviser. Clouds have forms, porous and shape-shifting, bumptious, fleecy. They are what clouds need to be, to be clouds. See a flock of them come, on the sled of the wind, all kneeling above the blue sea. And in the blue water, see the dolphin built to leap, the sea mouse skitter-ing; see the ropy kelp with its air-filled bladders tugging it upward; see the albatross floating day after day on its three-jointed wings. Each form sets a tone, enables a destiny, strikes a note in the universe unlike any other. How can we ever stop looking? How can we ever turn away? (20)

 She concludes another essay on Emerson by citing his journal:

I have confidence in the laws of morals as of botany. I have planted maize in my field every June for seventeen years and I never knew it come up strychnine.  My parsley, beet, turnip, carrot, buck-thorn, chestnut, acorn, are as sure.  I believe that justice produces justice, and injustice injustice. (76)