A question of being human
As a science and more importantly, a biology student I've been taught that the world around us is infinitely fascinating and complex in its workings and ways. The curious and inquisitive among us find more than smoke and mirrors in the dazzling array of things that are at display everyday around us. The seemingly mundane hold the secrets to some of the most complex questions we have about nearly everything. Consider the birds we see flying across the sky. We see only the culmination of a great number of processes that result in an action that is beautiful and yet simple in its beauty. The bones of a bird are hollow to lighten the load its wings have, the feathers give the wings greater surface area to push upon and the wings themselves are given the most strength to lift the body of the bird. The ferns that grow underneath our feet are the first to grow after a forest fire, to begin bringing stability to a ravaged ecosystem. The fungi and bacteria that break down the rotting and