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WHY DO WE COME TO THE WATER?
Why do we come to the water?
Why along its shores do we stroll?
Perhaps it’s one way to replenish our hearts…
a way to enliven our souls.
Why do we come to the forests…
Why do the trees and the animals we embrace?
Could it be in the forest time has no meaning…
the world moves at a much slower pace.
Why are we silent at a sunset…
why does a sunrise make us smile…
Perhaps they help put the ills of the world behind us…
if only for a little while.
Why do we walk among the flowers
that paint their colors on the ground…
Perhaps to be surrounded by the splendor of nature…
to feel her beauty all around.
For nature lives by a different set of rules…
not by the rules of man
Nature does not affix labels to herself…
the way that mankind can.
In nature there is no prejudice, no sexism…
no homophobia filling the air
No abuse, no hatred, no bitterness…
no racism anywhere…
Nature knows it’s species are different…
but still part of the same habitat…
She never give her creatures demeaning names…
like ugly or stupid or fat…
Nature accepts and celebrates her multiplicity…
and strives to keep all her species alive…
For she knows without this wonderful medley…
nature, herself, wouldn’t survive.
Perhaps that’s why we come to the water…to the forest…to the flowers…
to experience beauty in her diversity…
To come to a place…
unlike the one we’ve created for ourselves…
to encounter life as it was designed to be.
Pastoral Write
A return to Eden. There is a great seed storage facility somewhee in the Netherlands, I think, where rare species and thousands of known and collected species of flowers are in deep freeze in the event of catastrophe. Nature will survive.