A flower

Find a flower. Keep looking at it until you are past its prettiness, past its colorfulness, past all its cliched metaphors.

Discover its inherent symmetry and geometry, from petals to leaves. Notice how the leaves are arranged to gather up the sunlight most efficiently. Ask how its seeds are packed for their replicative purposes. Ask what role this flower plays in the ecology of it neighborhood.

You are unfolding the evolutionary decisions nature has made across the eons. Its not just a flower.