Colors have also a natural functions - like indicating that certain creatures are poisonous or that a fruit is ripe and has reached the right ‘color’ to be eaten.

So some color combinations are more appealing or ’safer’ for us. So beauty is not just in the eye of the beholder, but also in our instincts what is ‘good’ and ’safe’ for us.

But the same color can have totally different meanings: you would eat a deep green Granny Smith apple, but you wouldn’t bite a green snake - would you?

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Isn’t nature and it’s amazing variety of shapes and colors amazing? I never can get enough of bright flowers, crazy shaped insects and deep water fish. They are beautiful too me.

They will survive us all!

New Scientist: Jesus-era seed is the oldest to germinate

Forget cryopreservation – hot and dry conditions might be all you need to awake far into the future. A date palm seed some 2000 years old – preserved by nothing more than storage in hot and dry conditions – has germinated, making it the oldest seed in the world to do so.

The ancient seed was found along with several others in the 1960s in the Masada fortress on the edge of the Dead Sea in Israel. Recently, three were planted in soil and one germinated.

Wow! Nature is pretty inventive and tough. This shows us that we humans might be able to kill ourselves and damage nature. But in the long run nature will survive and regenerate itself.