… And there was little they could do about the earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, typhoons, floods, fires, and tidal waves that periodically and unpredictably visited their land. The Japanese didn’t particularly trust nature, but they learned from it. Three of the most obvious lessons gleaned from millennia of contact with nature were incorporated into the wisdom of wabi-sabi. All things are impermanent. All things are imperfect. All things are incomplete.