“…being touched and groomed is one of the seven most common experiences in the world.”—Patrick McIvor
A Darwinian Theory of Beauty: Denis Dutton
“This landscape shows up today on calendars, on postcards, in the design of golf courses and public parks, and in gold framed pictures that hang in living rooms from New York to New Zealand. A landscape that just happens to be similar to the Pleistocene savannas where we evolved. It’s a kind of Hudson River…