Biophilic Culture and its Nuances.

From Observing After Nature’s Shades to Connecting with True Self.

The iconic biobased building ‘The Growing Pavilion’ was the central meeting point during Dutch Design Week 2019 in Eindhoven, NL. Photo by Oscar Vinck. Source.

Ordinary minds see only similarities, but the eye of a genius notices differences. The fact is that objects are similar in their clumsy, rough features and are distinguished by their most subtle.

~Nikolay Karamzin, 1797
(Russian historian, best remembered for his 'History of the Russian State', a 12-volume national history).

Biophilic Culture — a source of learning about one’s own self.

I recall a famous Russian song ‘Nature Has No Bad Weather’ from a very — still — popular movie ‘Office Romance’ (1977) by outstanding film director, screenwriter and poet Eldar Ryazanov. The song is about appreciating nature’s ‘overtones’ and ‘imperfections’ as a ‘bliss’, which can learn to gratefully perceive different ‘seasons’ of one’s inner world, of ‘heartfelt weather’:

There is no bad weather in the nature.
Every weather is a perfect bliss.
Rain or snow — whatever is the stature
Take it as a “hit”, and not a “miss”.

Overtones of fragile soul’s bad weather
Staple of the loneliness at heart
Bitter fruit of sleeping…