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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Thursday Challenge #4-Complex


Complex By 'Nature'

If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things."
-Daniell Dennett-

This picture is of the aerial roots of The Great Banyan Tree in the Botanical Garden of Howrah,the widest tree in the world.Take a few steps under its canopy and you will feel like you are amongst a hundred trees in a forest.Need anything more complex and yet beautiful?:-)

Have a good day!
-R.

PS: Get more complex at this week's Thursday Challenge here.

17 comments:

magiceye said...

wow amazing!
lovely take on the theme!

Anonymous said...

It is really complex by nature. :D Good work. Keep it up!
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Shilpa

Anonymous said...

Nature is always complex and intricate. If it was that simple, humans would have understood by now and stopped destroying it..

The Xeno said...

you know what...
I live about 2 kms from the Botanical Garden and never in the 19 years of my life, have I been there.
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i HAVE to go down there this summer.

Bikram said...

yes the moment i saw the picture i knew it or I thought it was the same .. I have been therre and seen it ... wowo
it ws beautiful then and it sitll is so beautiful

:)

you have a great day tooo
Bikram's

Celestial Dreamz said...

this is amazing .... loved your blog :)

Raghavendra Mutt said...

Amazing..!

Deepthi Pola said...

amazing...well captured...

Sameera said...

Wow! I never knew something like that existed.

Nice!

Raksha Bhat said...

@The Xeno: You must visit the tree!:)

@The rest of them who stopped by here: Thank you for your thoughts and liking this complex picture:)

UB said...

Wow..it looks so beautiful and peaceful in the picture...Wonder what it would be like to be there actually.

Defiant said...

Awesome raksha :)

Sarah malik said...

what a wonderful thought! 'complex yet simple' and harmonious too..now, thats what we call a wonderful contradiction! :))

sarah

Raksha Bhat said...

@UB: Bliss!Thank you:)

@Madhumathi: Thanks:)

@subtlescribbler: Yeah..its a lot complex to be simple:)

Deepa Gopal said...

Absolutely Amazingly Complex!!! Loved it...

dr.antony said...

Truly amazing picture !So much to learn from nature.
Did you take that picture?

Raksha Bhat said...

@deepazartz: Thanks:)

@dr.antony: Yes on my last visit to Kolkata:)