Nature doesn’t care if patterns are creative or destructive. What matters to nature is the way things self-organize, the way they cooperate to form coherent patterns. When you look at nature’s patterns, contents aren’t contained anywhere but are revealed only by the dynamics. With the trees, form and content are inextricably connected and can’t be separated. The healthy pattern of trees bending in concert creates harmony and beauty, whereas the other pattern is destructive and ugly.

