“I stood under tulips and ashes, maples, sour wood, sassafras,
locusts, catalpas, and oaks. I let my eyes spread and unfix, screening
out all that was not vertical motion, and I saw only leaves in the
air–or rather, since my mind was also unfixed, vertical mils of yellow
color-patches idling hm nowhere to nowhere. Mysterious
streamers of color unrolled silently all about me, distant and near.
Some color chips made the descent violently; they wrenched from
side to side in a series of diminishing swings, as if wildly fighting
the fall with all the tricks of keel and ghde they could muster.
Others spun straight down in tight, suicidal circles.” (Dillard, 249)

-reminded me of when we went out to look at leaves and my thought process

“The naming of things is a useful mnemonic device, enabling
us to distinguish and utilize and remember what otherwise might
remain an undifferentiated sensory blur, but I don’t think names
tell us much of character, essence, meaning. Einstein thought that
the most mysterious aspect of the universe (if it is, indeed, a universe,
not a pluri-verse) is what he called its “comprehensibility.” (Watching the Birds, 50)

-interesting to see this compare/contrast between science and nature