Pepijn on Nostr: I love how so often in nature a functional thing has beauty that transcends the ...

I love how so often in nature a functional thing has beauty that transcends the function we ascribe to it.

Here's a growing cone from a larch tree. In a couple of weeks it'll be a hard nut-like structure, ready to withstand abuse. In its current state it would not look out of place next to an anemone in some warm oceanic reef :-)

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