Palm-like Thingy

This plant grows by the library, where I often spend my breaks between classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The flora series will continue, and I just hope that I will be able to find, or rather to SEE, the beauty and complexity of the plants around me.

It's a good training for me, as despite my background in landscape architecture, I am much more attuned to man-made environment. I grew up in a dense, dense city, and didn't spend much time in nature (in comparison to my students, who frolicked in the woods every day of their childhood). I wonder, whether there is such thing as sensitizing period, which dictates one's future comfort in various environment.

I have learned in my cognitive development class that all infants are wired for being able to learn all languages, and detect in-tune and out-of-tune music in Western and, for example Javanese pelog scales. As we get older, we loose these abilities, and zoom-in (in terms of phonemes and music scales) on the language and music that is most common in our surroundings. Can this also apply to natural vs man-made environment, and ways we see/understand what's around us?