Intricate Scramble

"Beauty itself is the fruit of the creator's exuberance that grew such a tangle, and the grotesques and horrors bloom from the same free growth, that intricate scramble and twine up and down the conditions of time....This, then, is the extravagant landscape of the world, given, given with pizzazz, given in good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over."

"We walk around, we see a shred of the infinite possible combination of an infinite variety of forms."
                                                                           
                                                                                          --Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)