Magical
Some of my favourite films and books fall into the genres of fantasy, sci-fi and magic realism – but sometimes nature is all the magic we need. When a rainbow appears, shimmying like an iridescent flame on the kitchen countertop, I call that magical. When a butterfly alights on a nearby flower and opens its colourful, patterned wings, this is magic in motion. It’s not that these are illusions or tricks (although nature has plenty of those too), but rather that they provoke a sense of awestruck wonder, of amazement, triggering the instinctive pre-rational question: how is that even possible?
— Wayne Visser
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