Why should flowers, of all things, seem so especially lovely and beautiful to us?

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• Why should it matter so much, whether a person makes something beautiful or not?question0.747
• The things we like from the heart make us feel wholesome when we are near them.claim0.736
  First numbered assertion about deep liking.
• Color will probably play an important role in gardens, in flowers and flowering bushes and trees of different seasons — even if it is based only on the huge variety of greens.claim0.730
  Prediction about the aesthetic features of gardens shaped by living process.
• The reasons for the existence of this deep liking are mysterious, not obvious. To plumb them we shall have to examine the nature of things - even, ultimately, the nature of matter itself - very carefully. Nevertheless the reasons are empirical. We may determine, empirically, to what extent a thing has the ability to rouse this deep liking in us.claim0.728
  Assertion of the empirical but mysterious basis of deep liking.
• The loveliest gardens come from allowing nature to take its course very strongly, helping it to be more like nature.claim0.723
  A prescription for gardening based on non-interference.
• When you make a beautiful thing, the depth of the person within becomes more vivid, lives more intensely for a moment.claim0.720
• We also feel wholesome when we are making these things. As we make them, and after making them, we feel whole in ourselves, healed, and right with the world.claim0.710
  Second assertion linking creative activity with personal healing.
• The beautiful balance of endless repetition and endless variation, typical in almost all of nature, and typical of the greatest of the ancient artefacts, may be coming within our grasp once again.quote0.709
  Expresses the aspiration of the new production method to recover a natural quality of order.