From Philosophy of Nature lecture

When you look at the patterns of clouds or the patterns of foam on the water – isn’t it astounding? They never make an aesthetic mistake. Look at the way stars are arranged. Well, they’re not arranged! They seem to be scattered through the sky like spray – but would you ever criticize the stars for being in poor taste? When you look at a mountain range… it’s perfect. But somehow this spontaneous wiggly arrangement of nature is quite different from anything we would call a mess.

Look at some modern painting where people have gone out of their way to create expensive messes. You see? They’re different. And this is the whole joke – that we can’t put our finger on what the difference is although we jolly well know it.

-Alan Watts