The universe has built within it an endlessly creative capacity for self-organization, and every plant, every creature along the path [I walk daily] has a story to tell of increasing diversity and complexity — tongues, books, sermons, and good news in everything. As I get down on my knees and examine the loosestrife's astonishing sexual apparatus under the magnifier, I am attending with rapt amazement to the fundamental story of creation: evolution by common descent and natural selection.
— Chet Raymo, The Path