Joshua Tree National Park, CA

Every living thing adapts to its environment, yet, why are those adaptations so various? One plant thrives with threadlike leaves, another with thick pads covered in thorns. Aspens glow next to evergreens. Floppy kelp holds to the same sea rocks as glass-encased diatoms. It’s the no-single-right-answer theory and can be applied universally…even to humans.