{"id":2977,"date":"2012-10-26T05:43:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T09:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/10\/beauty-in-nature\/"},"modified":"2012-10-26T05:43:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T09:43:17","slug":"beauty-in-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/10\/beauty-in-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty In Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/23\/science\/david-haskell-finds-biology-zen-in-a-patch-of-nature.html?ref=science\" target=\"_self\">piece<\/a> in the NY TIMES that profiled biologist David Haskell and his views on the natural world, including his take on the beauty of biology:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou can live a perfectly happy life never having heard of Shakespeare,\u201d he says, \u201cbut your life is in some ways a little diminished, because there\u2019s such beauty there.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd I think the same is true of nature. Much of it is useless to us, and that\u2019s O.K. It\u2019s not true that every species that goes extinct is like another rivet off the plane and the plane\u2019s going to crash. We lost the passenger pigeon and the U.S. economy did not tank. But we lost the passenger pigeon and we lost some of this remarkable music made out of atoms and DNA.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b017d3d0045e9970c-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3076\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b017d3d0045e9970c\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b017d3d0045e9970c-500wi.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"3076\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across a piece in the NY TIMES that profiled biologist David Haskell and his views on the natural world, including his take on the beauty of biology: \u201cYou can live a perfectly happy life never having heard of Shakespeare,\u201d he says, \u201cbut your life is in some ways a little diminished, because there\u2019s such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-creativity","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}