Flower Porn and the Meaning of Life
This is some of the classiest flower smut that you can find on the internet.
Really though, this is probably the most incredible flower that I’ve ever seen. It’s seemingly perfectly engineered for pollination by bees. When I first saw this clip, my jaw dropped in amazement. This is one of the reasons I’m a huge proponent of people spending more time in nature. That’s where all the answers are. Well, the answers to the important questions anyway. Some of them are breathtaking and inspiring, such as this flower. Struggle for survival over time has allowed this flower to find an elegant solution to a most common problem: propagation. Take a hike through a canyon and you’ve got a veritable history of the earth. Some lessons of nature are humbling and comparatively morbid. Ever watch a wild animal hunt, kill, and consume another? I, at least, can’t look at these things and re-prioritize my life in ways that often go against the pull of modern human civilization.
The embed should automatically start playing at the 9:43 mark, but if it doesn’t, go ahead and fast forward to that point and watch until about 10:23 (the full documentary is interesting as well — and available instantly on Netflix).
