To appreciate beauty is to experience humility-- to recognize that something larger and more powerful than oneself is at work in the environment. And humility, it turns out, is key to recognizing that in order to survive, you must adapt yourself to the environment, that it won't adapt to your needs.
Daniel James Brown, The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
adaption, beauty-in-nature, humility