Nature is, above all, profligate…Extravagance! Nature will try anything once. This is what the sign of the insects says. No form is too gruesome, no behavior too grotesque. If you're dealing with organic compounds, then let them combine. If it works, if it quickens, set it clacking in the grass: there's always room for one more; you ain't so handsome yourself."
-from Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek