Symphonic Life
I’ve been trying to think of a good analogy for the complexity and beauty in nature. The best thing I can come up with is music. For instance, a piece of piano music is made up of only a few dozen discrete tones. If a kid came and bashed away on the keys it would sound like useless noise. However, these same notes can be put together in endlessly fascinating and beautiful ways, themselves a small but wonderful subset of all possible combinations. In a piece of music these tones build on each other, complement each other and establish multiple layers of harmony and rhythm.
I’m glad we live on a planet brimming with the music of chemical elements… the music of life. Every other place in the solar system is either a rock or ball of gas, the discordant jumble of notes. Everything here is really a symphony.
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