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During and after the Pandemic our consciousness of space and time went under a drastic change: people experienced forced idleness, barrier gestures and physical distancing that redoubled the remoteness between human beings first induced by new technologies fostering fake communication rather than real exchange. But, technical progress is progress in name alone and focuses only on efficiency through speed—a process that ignores natural cycles. However, nature only can help us to reconcile with ourselves and save us from the domination of the machine while teaching us patience, i.e. the possibility of encountering Beauty: beauty of the artistic gesture that challenges Time, access to transcendence through the contemplation of the Living. It is in the interdependent relationship to Nature that we can avoid dehumanization of our so-called modern society and reconnect with the Beauty of the world.