The plant is almost always the largest and most showy generation, the seed, also often an independent unit, next most obvious of the generations, but there are also the lifeform generations of the unfertilized and waiting egg, and the potential and moving activity of the Angiosperm’s sperm which lives most of its also short life in the pollen particle. There is also the tissues that make the sperm and egg, the very meaning of the end of the apical meristem’s existence. These beauties, beyond the scope of our unaided eyes, they are there to behold, but our eyes need assistance to behold this beauty.

I think beauty goes beyond a beholding, both macro and micro. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder is only a partial truth. There is the vast, by far the majority of beauty, that no person has ever beheld, that nothing sentient will ever behold.

If only singers would remember the 3 basic rules of singing! Sing the right notes and sing them in the right pitch. Sing the words clearly, and third, make the music sound good. Only after these 3 things are done should a singer be recorded.

Would Scheherazade be considered too beautiful? If so, I’d subscribe to a world of too much beauty, and shun those who dislike beauty. Is that unsophisticated? Maybe.