Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World » Lotus http://cruelcrazybeautifulworld.com A work in progress... Mon, 25 Aug 2014 01:49:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 Image of the Day: Lotus Bud 1 http://cruelcrazybeautifulworld.com/2012/03/18/image-of-the-day-lotus-bud-1/ http://cruelcrazybeautifulworld.com/2012/03/18/image-of-the-day-lotus-bud-1/#comments Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:42:24 +0000 http://cruelcrazybeautifulworld.com/?p=778 Lotus Bud 1--BW State 2wm

Lotus Bud 1

Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that it cannot be seen edgewise from a satellite yet so prodigiously diverse that only a tiny fraction of species have been discovered and named.
‘Vanishing Before Our Eyes’, Time (26 Apr 2000).
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