Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

19 May 2021 at 22:36

1/ Beauty, a thread. “Beauty...is the highest integrative level of understanding and the most comprehensive capacity for effective action, enabling us to go with, rather than against, the deepest tendency or theme of the universe.” - Frederick Turner. world3.scribble.com/world3/meme1/conn7.html

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Quoted by3 Oct 2022@ewahlwriting @RizomaSchool A pal studies Dracula orchids, whose flowers synergistically merge a spellbinding complexity of *multi-realm* tensions among fungi, pollinators and plants. No coincidence, surely, that their harmonizing powers express, functionally, as some of the world's most beautiful flowers.Quoted by25 Sept 2021RT @nick_routledge: @NewYorker @ShakiraSecurity Then there are folks who experience a deep relationship with cyberspace as balanced, coherent, measured, positive. A healthy complement to, as distinct from substitute for, the concrete dimension of life. The beautification of cyberspace; perhaps, it’s what ultimately saves us?Quoted by25 Sept 2021@NewYorker @ShakiraSecurity Then there are folks who experience a deep relationship with cyberspace as balanced, coherent, measured, positive. A healthy complement to, as distinct from substitute for, the concrete dimension of life. The beautification of cyberspace; perhaps, it’s what ultimately saves us?Quoted by5 Jun 2021RT @nick_routledge: @KathySaranpa Rilke, Duino Elegies: "For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.” ?s=20 Quoted by5 Jun 2021@KathySaranpa Rilke, Duino Elegies: "For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.” ?s=20