Have we merely carried our animal need for shrewd perceptions to an absurd extreme? Or have we stumbled onto a deep congruence between the structure of our minds and the structure of the universe?

　　這一切究竟來(lái)源于何?僅僅是我們將本能的敏銳感知力推向了荒謬的極致，還是我們不經(jīng)意間摸索到了扎根于人類(lèi)思想和蒼茫萬(wàn)物間那深刻的一致性?

　　I am persuaded the latter is true. I am convinced there's more to beauty than biology, more than cultural convention. It flows around and through us in such abundance, and in such myriad forms, as to exceed by a wide margin any mere evolutionary need. Which is not to say that beauty has nothing to do with survival: I think it has everything to do with survival. Beauty feeds us from the same source that created us.

　　我相信后者是正確的。我堅(jiān)信美不僅僅存在于生物學(xué)和文化習(xí)俗中。美我們身邊流淌，充盈、潤(rùn)澤著我們的心田;而其量之充沛，形態(tài)之多變已經(jīng)遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超越了進(jìn)化本身的需要。我這樣說(shuō)并不意味著美和生存毫無(wú)干系;恰恰相反，我相信美和生存之間有著千絲萬(wàn)縷的聯(lián)系。如果說(shuō)是自然造就了我們，那么，是美通過(guò)自然滋養(yǎng)了我們。