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A natural balance of colours

In a biophilic year archive

In nature colour is never idle, a bloom signalling to a pollinator, a bright animal warning of poison. Reading colour as meaning, and holding it in balance, is the lesson those landscapes offer design.

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This essay is part of A Biophilic Year Archive, available with the book A Biophilic Year: 365 thoughts on the essence and practice of biophilic design.