Ancient wisdom

Topiary at <n>Raby Castle</n> from landscape designer <n>Piergiorgio</n>.

Detail from <n>Bacchus and Ariadne</n> (c. 1600), attributed to <n>Domenico Fiasella</n>.

A 1958 portrait of ballerina <n>Violetta Elvin</n> by photographer <n>Zoltán Glass</n>.

<n>Vestige</n>, a 2009 sculpture installation in Scotland by artist <n>Rob Mulholland</n>.

A time-lapse of an <n>Echinopsis Cacti</n> blooming, filmed by <n>Greg Krehel</n>.

Detail from <n>An Old Man and his Grandson</n> (c. 1490) by <n>Domenico Ghirlandaio</n>.

A tree cocooned in spider webs in Sindh, Pakistan, after the 2010 floods. Photo by <n>Russell Watkins</n>.

Photograph by <n>Otto Stupakoff</n> at <n>Lagoa do Abaeté</n> in Salvador, Brazil.

Combs for <n>Crown Affair</n>. Photo by <n>Simone Lee</n>.

From the series <n>Canada to Texas</n> by photographer <n>Terry Evans</n>.

<n>Guilin</n>, China, photographed by <n>Jonathan Beres</n> for <n>Star Wars: Episode III</n>’s planet <n>Kashyyyk</n>.

<n>The Grand Oral Disseminator</n> by <n>Grazyna Gosar</n> and <n>Franz Bludorf</n>.

<n>Pomegranate Comb</n> by designer <n>Pamela Love</n>.

Photographic installation from the series <n>A Box of Ku</n> by <n>Masao Yamamoto</n>.

A sculpture from <n>The Wild Garden Series</n>, 2023, by artist <n>Hur</n>.

<n>Running White Deer, County Wicklow, Ireland</n>, 1967. Photo by <n>Paul Caponigro</n>.

Photography for the <n>A Flower Portal</n> event by <n>David Mourato</n> of <n>ART OF EUPHORIA | Creative Studio</n>.

<n>The Marching Bear Group</n> earthworks at <n>Effigy Mounds National Monument</n> in Iowa.

Model <n>Vanya Verma</n> photographed by <n>Bikramjit Bose</n> for <n>VOGUE India</n>.

<n>Mindfulness Bell</n>, a printmaking animation by <n>Erik Winkowski</n>.

<n>Amie Dicke</n>'s <n>Sucking Stones</n> (2016), showing a book open to <n>Gian Lorenzo Bernini</n>'s <n>Ecstasy of Saint Teresa</n>.

<n>Vestige</n>, a 2009 sculpture and installation by artist <n>Rob Mulholland</n>.

The rotating floating island <n>El Ojo</n>, located in the Paraná River delta in Argentina.

<n>Concrete Stereo</n> by designer <n>Ron Arad</n>, 1983.

A digital rendering by design studio <n>Diorama</n>.