Messiness
Here’s something your parents never told you: messiness is ok; in fact, it may even be good. As children, we are schooled in the virtues of being neat and tidy, of ordering and classifying everything and generally cleaning up. But nature is messy. Random trees, fallen leaves, skew branches, tangled roots, unruly brambles, unsanctioned mushrooms. Yet there is order in the chaos. Natural systems have design principles and recurring patterns, but there is a lot of flexibility for experimentation, adaptation and diversity. Can we apply the same lesson? Shall we let a bit of messiness back into our lives?
— Wayne Visser
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