Please dont tell me about the
Evolutionary roots of appreciating beauty
Dont try to dissect it for me
Im sure there are good scientific reasons
Why we are drawn to beauty
But I dont want to know those, not me!
I want it to be a feeling
A feeling of bliss that overcomes me
When I look at beautiful art
A warm feeling and a smile
When I listen to someone playing guitar
Please, lets not analyze beauty
Lets not make it part of the
Evolutionary theory of life
Id like our love of beauty
To be mysterious, yet obvious
And not by diagrams defined
Appreciating beauty may have
Something to do with our survival
As a species
But Id like to think of it
As essential to the life of our spirit
That’s how I see it
Lida Berghuis
December 28th, 2010
A response to Denis Duttons
A Darwinian theory of beauty
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