Ideas of Quantum Chemistry, 9780444522276 (0444522271), Elsevier Limited, 2007

Colours! The most beautiful of buds – an apple bud in my garden changes colour from red to rosy after a few days. Why? It then explodes into a beautiful pale rosy flower. After a few months what was once a flower looks completely different: it has become a big, round and red apple. Look at the apple skin. It is pale green, but moving along its surface the colour changes quite abruptly to an extraordinary vibrant red. The apple looks quite different when lit by full sunlight, or when placed in the shade.

Touch the apple, you will feel it smooth as silk.
How it smells! An exotic mixture of subtle scents.
What a taste: a fantastic juicy pulp!

Sounds . . . the amazingmelody of a finch is repeated with remarkable regularity. My friend Jean-Marie André says it is the same here as it is in Belgium. The same? Is there any program that forces finches to make the same sound in Belgium as in Poland? A woodpecker hits a tree with the regularity of a machine gun, my Kampinos forest echoes that sound. Has the woodpecker also been programmed? What kind of program is used by a blackbird couple that forces it to prepare, with enormous effort and ingenuity, a nest necessary for future events?

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