1741 Edition Of The Poor Richards Almanac By Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin once said, “Beauty, like supreme dominion, is but supported by opinion.” Franklin wrote this in the 1741 edition of the Poor Richards Almanac and was trying to say that beauty is something that each individual interprets in their own way. For me to see something as being beautiful, it has to make me want to capture it in some form. Photography is my most chosen form of capturing something because my mind will one day forget it. I find that most of the picture that I take are of nature. Nature, to me, is one of the many beautiful things we humans take for granted all too often. Nature is full of beauty in the way that it is constantly changing, but staying the same. For my project, I chose photography because I believe we should

We seem to be more attracted to those who show more health and are striving and successful than those that are sickly and poor in the sense of overall well-being. We do the same with nature. We are attracted more to a blooming bush full of leaves and color than a tree that may be dying. This could be because the thriving bush is more attractive. But some people see the beauty in all things and see both the bush and the tree as two beautiful things. We find it appealing because we can relate to it. We can see some part of nature that is beautiful and compare our own definition of our personal beauty with it. We also connect ourselves with nature. If you plant a tree as a young child, you become sentimentally attached to the tree. You literally grow up with the tree and similar in age with the tree. You connect yourself with the tree and figuratively become the tree. Or if you plant a flower after a loved one dies, you are reminded of that loved one whenever you see that flower, or any other similar flower. It reminds you of that person, and the flower ultimately fills the void of losing that person with joy because it is like that person is still there. It is so easy to connect with nature because we came from it. No matter what you believed, humans evolved from some form of nature, whether it be a single organism or from dirt, we came from and are a product of nature. We also connect with nature in the way it changes. We are constantly changing. We change jobs, houses, schools, even personalities. Nature also changes. It changes its colors, its shape, and sometimes ever completely destroys part of itself. We connect with this and possibly try to mimic this. If we do not like ourselves, or even trying to change for others, we will completely reinvent ourselves to better show who we