A landscape becomes beautiful partly because nothing inside it asked to match.

Nothing in a landscape was coordinated. The rock did not consider the tree, the river did not consult the hill, and the result is more beautiful than almost anything designed to match. Coherence emerged from each thing simply being fully what it is in the same place.

Worth remembering when you are trying to make things match, in a room, a team, or a life. Let the pieces be genuinely themselves and see whether the whole holds together anyway. It often does, and with far more character than the matched version.