Crystaline Vibrance

Measuring biological diversity is like measuring the angle of prismatic constituents within a crystal, or an iridescent feather. On its own, the substrate looks dull with very little luminosity. But contextually, the particulate constituent takes on a radiant luster. The relational elements of a system, repetitively organized, magnify the pattern of potential within them. This pattern, however, is simultaneously a result of the properties that surround the constituent (fundamental) unit and is yet utterly inexorable from the fundamental unit in and of its self. By appreciating the ways that a system collectively interacts, we become more acutely aware of the deeper, vivid reflections and textures that course through it like veins just below the surface, or like the color of a shimmering crystal that comes bursting forth when you align it properly with a roaring beam of sun.