A flower is one of the most perfect fields of centers that occur in nature, which explains why flowers are universally experienced as beautiful

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• A thing which has the field of centers always does make a person near it feel more whole.claim0.782
• The beauty and force of any building arises always, and in its entirety, from the deep functional nature of the centers that have been created.claim0.775
  Core principle tying beauty directly to deeply functional centers.
• The objective oneness of space which I have identified as the field of centers is also entirely personal in nature.claim0.775
  The startling conclusion that the deep structure of space is simultaneously the most intimate, vulnerable, personal thing.
• Darwin's familiar 'Forms Most Beautiful' are just a tiny region of an astronomically large space of possible beings.claim0.771
  Assertion that natural species are a minuscule subset of possible agents.
• The loveliest gardens come from allowing nature to take its course very strongly, helping it to be more like nature.claim0.770
  A prescription for gardening based on non-interference.
• The great beauty of Japan, in traditional times, came from an understanding that human life is most beautiful, when many things are a little small.quote0.766
  Alexander's aesthetic principle explaining the appeal of the intimate scale.
• The field of centers at the heart of living structure is inherently so subtle that it can only be created dynamically, and its end-state is inherently unpredictable.claim0.765
  The central ontological claim: living structure's dependence on dynamic creation.
• The environment is good, or bad, according to the degree that its thousands of centers are pictures of the self, i.e., beings.claim0.763
  The central practical conclusion of the chapter: the being-character is the criterion for life in the environment.