I remember taking a class in Humanistic Psychology in college and learning that the aesthetic sense is one of the attributes that separates *homo sapiens* from the lower animals. A love of beauty is hardwired in us.
Anthropologists have traveled to the most isolated communities in Africa, the Australian outback, and Amazon rain forests. Primitive peoples shown pictures of snowcapped mountains in Switzerland and Gothic cathedrals in Germany respond with expressions of spellbound admiration.
They know what's beautiful even without undergoing the socialization to grasp it fully. It's an interesting phenomenon.
Enjoyed the post… I recently took up carving wildlife in wood, so your post hit the mark. You’re pretty good at writing also.
Thank you, I appreciate it!
I remember taking a class in Humanistic Psychology in college and learning that the aesthetic sense is one of the attributes that separates *homo sapiens* from the lower animals. A love of beauty is hardwired in us.
Anthropologists have traveled to the most isolated communities in Africa, the Australian outback, and Amazon rain forests. Primitive peoples shown pictures of snowcapped mountains in Switzerland and Gothic cathedrals in Germany respond with expressions of spellbound admiration.
They know what's beautiful even without undergoing the socialization to grasp it fully. It's an interesting phenomenon.