“The splendour of furrowed fields is this: that like all brave things they are made straight, and therefore they bend…Bows are beautiful when they bend only because they try to remain rigid…But the same is true of every tough curve of the tree-trunk…there is hardly any such thing in Nature as a mere droop of weakness. Rigidity yielding a little, like justice swayed by mercy, is the whole beauty of the earth. The cosmos is a diagram just bent beautifully out of shape. Everything tries to be straight; and everything just fortunately fails.”
from “The Furrows” (1911) by G K Chesterton (quote first spotted in Stravinsky’s “Poetics of Music”)
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