What Does Nature Know About Creativity

What does nature know about creativity?: Three people walk into a national forest. After about a half-hour the first one says, “This place is absolutely beautiful, it’s Shangri-La, a gift from heaven, a very spiritual place.”

The second one, proudly announced, “Look at all these trees, you could build a lot of houses with all this timber.”

The third one looked at the trail they were walking on and said, “I think this place stinks! I just stepped on a stink bug.”

The trio’s forest walkabout yielded three personal impressions. What if I told you each of the three people were highly accomplished artists? Would you think for a minute that creative people could have diametrically opposing views such as theirs, when they witnessed splendor and magnificence of nature firsthand? We will explore the why’s of their personal responses later on.

Nature is sagacious, it doesn’t dictate perceptions. But for those with a mind that is connected to unshaded eyes, and a mutable spirit: nature becomes gracious in its willingness to allow all those who take the time, to see, hear and witness beauty that could never be duplicated by man. It’s true nature at its whim can become inhabitable and virtually shut out all those that dare to challenge its authority.