The more sensitive we are, the more we may be nourished by what Robinson Jeffers called 'the astonishing beauty of things.' Anyone can take delight in a face or a flower. You need training, however, to perceive the beauty in mathematics or physics or chess, in the architecture of a tree, the design of a bird's wing, or the shiver of breath through a flute. For most of human history, that training has come from elders who taught the young how to pay attention. By paying attention we learn to savor all sorts of patterns, from quantum physics to patchwork quilts.
— Scott Russell Sanders, Hunting For Hope