Following in the footsteps of Chen Jen's Nature Speaks, we can certainly attest to the fact that Mother Nature has been speaking loudly as of late. She's roaring in the southern Gulf of Mexico in the form of Hurricane Alex. She's crackling in the forests of Arizona, Manitoba, New Jersey and northeast China. She rumbled this morning in southern Mexico. She flowed strongly through river valleys in Arkansas and Oklahoma a few weeks ago and she's blown through Tornado Alley and states like Connecticut, New York, Minnesota and Montana.
It seems that, when she wishes to get our attention, she does so in grandiose ways! When she puts her mind to it, she's next too impossible to ignore. If you don't believe me, ask Tim Scott of Springfield, Kentucky. He became the first person in modern history to have been attacked by a bear within state borders.
For all our technological advances and increase in intellectual knowledge, we still live at the mercy of nature. We sometimes like to delude ourselves into thinking we can subdue and overcome it, but anytime we start feeling too big for our britches, it slaps us down like a fly at a picnic!
But for all her perceived wrath, life wouldn't exist without her. She freely gives us air to breath, water to quench our thirst, food to sustain us, shelter to (somewhat) protect us and beauty to inspire us. Just as each human needs a mother, life itself is born of her.
She is the Way.
It seems that, when she wishes to get our attention, she does so in grandiose ways! When she puts her mind to it, she's next too impossible to ignore. If you don't believe me, ask Tim Scott of Springfield, Kentucky. He became the first person in modern history to have been attacked by a bear within state borders.
For all our technological advances and increase in intellectual knowledge, we still live at the mercy of nature. We sometimes like to delude ourselves into thinking we can subdue and overcome it, but anytime we start feeling too big for our britches, it slaps us down like a fly at a picnic!
But for all her perceived wrath, life wouldn't exist without her. She freely gives us air to breath, water to quench our thirst, food to sustain us, shelter to (somewhat) protect us and beauty to inspire us. Just as each human needs a mother, life itself is born of her.
She is the Way.
Yes the apparent destruction is the way of bringing about new. Something she did way before us and has no plan on stopping.
ReplyDeleteFrom a bubbling stream to a budding tree, even to a tidal wave and a forest fire, she is unceasing.
I love how in these concrete cities we make the planners always need to put some trees somewhere - these trees are the only true beauty and given time they drop leaves, wriggle their roots up over the straight lines around them and claim back. Seemingly destructively, but just creatively getting fresh of rigidity.
Rigidity vs flexibility.