Hundreds of Ways: Do other animals experience beauty?

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Do other animals experience beauty?

"...we want to be swept away. It's particular to our species."
-Michael Cunningham on Radio Lab's "Space Capsules" episode

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Anonymous said...: Other animals ARE beauty.

They ARE. Without ego, they absorb their moments, without being their now being snuffed out by the breaking of the past, or the fear of what may or may not occur in the future.

What is the difference between the experience of beauty, and of joy?

Is a giraffe that is laying in the sun with its eyes closed experiencing both joy and beauty simultaneously?; 12:13 AM

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When scientists speak of beauty in these contexts they generally employ the word loosely, equivocally, and sometimes even in a contradictory way. One can hardly blame them; is there any subject more difficult to discuss with precision? -- ROBERT P. CREASE

Truthfully we cannot do without beauty; for without the
desire for the beautiful, our lives would seemingly be
quite uninteresting and uninspiring. Art would be dry and
rigid, design overly utilitarian and what would happen to
all of the supermodels? We should all have the moment in
the street where we take time to evaluate what is truly
beautiful to us and not what we have been told is beautiful.
Let us open up beauty and try to find the potential
within it.-- SEAN BURKHOLDER

This is the spirit that Beauty must ever induce, wonderment and a delicious trouble, longing and love and a trembling that is all delight. -- PLOTINUS

Keep in your homes all that you know to be useful and all that you believe to be beautiful. -- WILLIAM MORRIS

What we need is more awe. -- Dustin Kurtz

Your faith was strong, but you needed proof. Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you. -- LEONARD COHEN

I don't know if you're beautiful because I love you too much. --MAGNETIC FIELDS

Beauty is human gold. --BYRON ADDISON

He is sustained in the misery of the present by the hope of a golden future.--ALBERT VON KELLER on the benefits of the artist's inclinations and interests

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. --VOLTAIRE

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see. --GEORGE W. RUSSELL

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things. --TERTULLIAN

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. --NINON DE L'ENCLOS

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. --LEO TOLSTOY

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. --CHRISTOPHER MORELY

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. --SIMONE WEIL

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. --KARL LAGERFELD

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. --CONFUCIOUS

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world. --FLORENZ ZIEGFELD

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. --MARIE STOPES

Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. --PABLO PICASSO

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty. --JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. --ALBERT EINSTEIN

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. --RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Beauty and sadness always go together.Nature thought beauty too rich to go forthUpon the earth without a meet alloy. --GEORGE MACDONALD

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty. --PHIL OCHS

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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Do other animals experience beauty?

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