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[Unedited] Robin Wall Kimmerer with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Dissonance Between Beauty and Reason

I wanted to know why asters in Goldenrod looked so beautiful together. And I was told that that was not science, that if I was interested in beauty I should go to art school. But as it turns out there's a very good biophysical explanation for why those plants grow together. So it's a matter of aesthetic sand, it's amatter of ecology. Those complementary colors of purple and gold together, they're so vivid they actually attract far more pollinators than that if those two grew apart from one another. Each of those plants benefits by combining its beauty with the beauty of the other. That's a question that science can address certainly as well as artists. Why is the

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