Nature Knows Best
Nature knows best. I have no doubt about that. We all live
in diverse ecologies. Those ecologies have given birth to
life perfectly adapted to the environment. When we go out
into the wild countryside in areas unscarred by man's clumsy
footprint, we stand in awe at the beauty and magic of nature.
Why then, do we return home and get out our gardening tools
with the attitude that we know better than nature? Why do
go to our local gardening centre and buy hybrid plants that
have no place in our local ecology, not to mention no place
in nature? We buy these sterile, hygrid plants? Is it because
we feel they bloom with prettier flowers than their natural
cousins? But these flowers are worthless to the bees and the
birds. These plants are defenseless against the native inhabitants
such as slug and caterpillar, so what to we do? We set about
killing the native inhabitants! We have done that as people
against people too and thankfully we have learned it is wrong.
We have given it a name now. We call this practice 'war' and
'ethnic cleansing' and 'genocide'. If you work in harmony
with you local ecology and embrace the native inhabitants,
nature will create for you a wonderful tapestry of diversity
that will feed your body as well as your soul... Work with
nature. Nature knows best.
