Beautiful
ON SUNDAY MORNING, we greeted the sunrise from the Scarborough Bluffs. Could there possibly be anywhere else in the whole world that we needed to be more than right there, right then?
IS THERE SUCH A THING as objective beauty? Can beauty be quantified as well as qualified? I’m not speaking here about human beauty, or which people we are more attracted to. Naomi Wolf tackled that topic back in 1991, demonstrating that a single impossible standard of beauty is promulgated by advertising agencies to make us feel inadequate enough to purchase the products they’re huckstering. But although beauty is in the eye of the multi-cultural beholder, science says that there are some measurements that are universally held to be desirable, across cultures. Could the same thing be true for the rest of creation? Is there a secret mathematical formula for the perfect landscape?
