Good, no one found it interesting
I would not have made this a few years ago. Now I can stare at this image for hours and ponder over some amazing aspects of nature.
Let me share my perspective.
Four hundred years ago, during the king's time this wall must have been well maintained with no sign of life on it. Today, 400 years later what we constructed/created then seem to have perished/decayed but the nature sprouted!!
So much of life on it now, it breathes, grows, reproduces. It all happened on its own. But how? Not all the life that we see here happened because of disbursal of seeds by birds, some might be through wind, some might be through .. God knows! I am
sure we will be able to find a scientific explanation on how the life we see on it came here. But it is fascinating to think that left alone nature repairs, heals, makes this planet a worthy place to continue to live.
Can we do this? Neither Eiffel Tower nor Taj Mahal comes any close to mystery of life.
Yes, there are experiments going on for decades now to create new synthetic life. Success of such experiments does not appear to be proportional to the effort that has gone in. We are very very far off, as it appears.
We have not created a cell yet, as I understand. It is very interesting however. Let me share Craig Venter's video here.
Even then, what does it all mean? What does life mean? In different frame of references? If I think further the philosophical thoughts our elders had makes all the sense.
All we can do is just wonder about it! May be till a distant future? May be for ever?
ಒಗಟೆಯೇನೀ ಸೃಷ್ಠಿ? ಬಾಳಿನಥರ್ವದೇನು?
ಬಗೆದು ಬಿಡಿಸುವರಾರು ಸೋಜಿಗವನಿದನು?|| - Dr. DVG
"Is our universe a puzzle? What does life mean?
Who can explain this marvel?" - Dr DVG. (My poor translation from Kannada which is devoid of the beauty of its original expression by the poet, Dr DVG)
This is what is "Nature" to me in nature photography now... It lives in the cross section of science and philosophy. I am fascinated by what we don't know.
Interestingly we have taken all these for granted. A sprouting seed on the forest floor is of no interest to us. Why is it so?