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I just finished reading A. Scott Berg"s memoirs of Katharine Hepburn. At the end of the book he says that Kate's favorite flower, the "only one that was above reproach, never debated nor denigrated" was QAL. She asked him "Have you ever looked at Queen Anne's Lace? I mean really looked at it, up close, and studied it" "Aren't they just thrilling? That's not the best part. Turn one of them over. " He states, "I saw a genuine marvel of nature,--an extraordinarily intricate network of tiny stalks--"pedicels," they're call, Kate told me--interwoven into a mesh that was at once strong and complex but also delicate and simple, perfectly symmetrical. This cross-hatching design of countless small spokes created a magnificent whole much greater that all its parts." "Now how can anybody look at that, and not believe in God?" Kate asked. "I mean how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us?"
slvr, I love that passage you took from that book! When people say they don't believe in God, I ask them how can they not, if they just look around them, at everything in nature, some things so delicately made, other things grand and magnificent--- All of it just didn't happen by chance. QAL is a great example, isn't it?!
