首页
登录
职称英语
"All nature is meant to make us think of paradise," Thomas Merton observed.
"All nature is meant to make us think of paradise," Thomas Merton observed.
游客
2024-12-25
2
管理
问题
"All nature is meant to make us think of paradise," Thomas Merton observed. Because the Creation puts on a nonstop show, beauty is free and inexhaustible, but we need training in order to perceive more than the most obvious kinds. Even 15 billion years or so after the Big Bang, echoes of that event still linger in the form of background radiation, only a few degrees above absolute zero. Just so, I believe, the experience of beauty is an echo of the order and power that permeate the universe. To measure background radiation, we need subtle instruments; to measure beauty, we need alert intelligence and our five keen senses.
Anyone with eyes can take delight in a face or a flower. You need training, however, to perceive the beauty in mathematics or physics or chess, in the architecture of a tree, the design of a bird’s wing, or the shiver of breath through a flute. For most of human history, the training has come from elders who taught the young how to pay attention. By paying attention, we learn to savor all sorts of patterns, from quantum mechanics to patchwork quilts. This predilection brings with it a clear evolutionary advantage, for the ability to recognize patterns helped our ancestors to select mates, find food, avoid predators. But the same advantage would apply to all species, and yet we alone compose symphonies and crossword puzzles, carve stone into statues, map time and space.
选项
答案
任何人都能在一颦一笑、一花一草中体验快乐。但是,发现数学之美、物理之绝、象棋之妙的眼睛并不是与生俱来的,而欣赏树木形态、鸟翼构造、或是悠扬笛声的心灵也非浑然自成。我们需要点拨和引领。纵观历史传承,这样的点拨和引领往往来自长者,藉此,年轻人学会专注;因为专注,我们领略到万千形态的美,无论是量子力学中精妙的理论,还是棉被上漂亮的拼花图案。正是出于对美的强烈偏爱,才使得人类在物种进化的追逐比拼中处于上风。因为人类能够辨识出美的事物,而我们的祖先则因循这一标准选择伴侣,寻找食物,躲避敌人。如果自然界中所有的物种都拥有发现美的能力,那么它们都将在进化过程中称霸一方。然而,唯独人类在演变中独占鳌头:我们谱写交响曲,创造字谜游戏;在我们的手中,顽石诞生为雕像,时空归依为坐标。
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3883231.html
相关试题推荐
ParadiseLostwaswrittenbyA、JohnDonne.B、JohnMilton.C、JonathanSwift.D、Rob
TheGrandCanyoninnorth-western______isoneofnature’smostimpressivesights
"Allnatureismeanttomakeusthinkofparadise,"ThomasMertonobserved.
JohnMilton’sParadiseLestwasbasedon______.A、aRomanmythB、theBibleC、aG
______iswrittenbyThomasGraywhoshowshissympathytothepoorandtheunkno
ThomasPainewasa(n)______writer.A、essayB、novelC、politicalD、poemC托马斯·佩恩是一
WhichtwospeechesmadeEmersonfamous?A、NatureandEssays.B、RepresentativeMen
WhichofthefollowingisthemostfamouspoliticalpamphletofThomasPaine?A、R
"Whatiscalledhumannatureisreallyareflectionofthehumancondition:
Whichofthefollowinghadthetitle"theWizardofMenloPark"?A、ThomasAlvaE
随机试题
(1)Inthetownthereweretwomutes,andtheywerealwaystogether.Earlyeve
数字化对出版设计环节的影响不包括( )。A.数字化促使出版产品与服务形态呈现多
Windows系统中,在“运行”对话框中键入(),可出现下图所示界面。 A
有关不良习惯与牙周病的关系,哪项是错误的()A.磨牙症可引起食物嵌塞
女,42岁,间歇性上腹疼痛10年,疼痛多为餐前,进食后可缓解。体查:腹平软,剑下
红外热像仪的校准使用的是黑体炉。()
评价无领导小组讨论时,考官应该着重评估被评价者()的表现。A.在团队工作中与他
理想根管充填剂的基本要求之一是A:持久的抗菌作用 B:不具X线阻射性 C:有
(2020年真题)本月因货币当局的国外资产增加10亿元,国外负债增加2亿,则储备
(2017年真题)对于生产多种产品的企业而言,如果能够将固定成本在各种产品之间进
最新回复
(
0
)