Appreciation

It is quite possible to enjoy flowers in their colored form and delicate fragrance without knowing anything about plants theoretically. But if one sets out to understand the flowering of plants, he is committed to finding out something about the interactions of soil, air, water, and sunlight that condition the growth of plants.

/John Dewey, Art as Experience

There is a great appreciation that comes with knowing. This is why we must keep learning, seeking, thinking, growing, and creating (which is itself a kind of research). Considering the depth of something as simple as a blade of grass or the taste of an apple leads us to greater appreciation, revealing to us more humility.

But you weren't looking for a musing pedant necessarily. Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Teaching children has been fun and insightful. We're almost to the summer! Don't forget to enjoy spring.