Honoring What Nature Provides
Every single moment of every single day and night,
nature provides.
It's amazing how often we fore sake the gift, and
how little credence we give to helping her sustain our very being.
Every little thing we do has an impact.
Even the seemingly littlest thing we take for granted
can alter, damage or literally take away life.
Just give a thought to this one simple desire of man that requires all of this to be:
Trees are harvested...transported...
processed...transported...
packaged...transported...
stored...transported...
stocked and sold...transported home...
utilized...
water is then harvested...purifed...
chemically treated...piped...and
utilized as transport...
then...
more transport is needed to
carry away the packaging,
landfills are needed to house the waste,
tractors are needed to turn it,
and it can take years and years--if ever--to break down back into the earth.
All that transportation requires
manufacturing & maintenance of vehicles,
fuel and roads (each with their own required reality to exist).
Buildings, maintenance, electricity and more for manufacturing,
processing and storing are also required
(with all of the specifics to upkeep each of those realities in flow).
The fresh water is no longer fresh,
and there are thousands of animals
and creatures that give their home (the trees)
and their lives for our habitual actions.
The cycle goes round and round in an endless circle.
Most of us never give a thought to the ramifications of our daily habits.
Just think of how all of those realities (and more) are affected
simply by our use of
TOILET PAPER!!!
Humans are indeed selfish creatures.
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Exactly, if all of us start changing out habits what big change we can get. But sadly all of us are busy in a plastic life when we give no damn to nature
Sadly and unfortunately you are right---though not ALL of us. It's a trap most everyone is in, and can't see beyond the plastic cage. I appreciate your comment @piyushpathak.
Hope we will break this cage some day .
Me too. We're breaking it in very potent ways already at the @gardenofeden.
Amazing pics and very true words. I am very happy you joined in the tree Tuesday fun!!!
Trees are my favs!!!! Grateful to participate!
Yes, humans are indeed selfish creatures. They have changed and destroyed everything on Earth especially environment, global warming is among big issues of humans and the reason is that humans want to fulfill all their desires and they want comfort and peace and for this purpose they have endangered the life on Earth.
Thanks to @everlove for expressing the fact in very nice way.
I would agree with all of that. Many people don't want to hear it or believe it , because they then have to be responsible for it. Keeping one's head in the sand confirms the perfect saying - ignorance is bliss
Thanks for seeing it@irshadhussain. May we continue to take action and set the example.
Someone once said it is wrong for us to say we love fish. He said how can we say we love fish and yet, kill it to eat it? He said the proper thing to say it, i love the taste given or how i feel when eating fish.
Your words this morning is for reflection. We don't do enough to protect nature.
Humans have become very disconnected from their experience. Many people don't know where their food comes from--or even if it's food. And as long as someone else kills it first, it's easier to swallow. The ground is something few people ever touch and we've been conditioned to believe the sun is bad for us. We poison "weeds" that are actually medicine in favor of grass that provides us nothing. No wonder people don't really give nature much importance. Only expanded awareness will bring us back home!
Exactly, whatever is not beneficial to us, we tend to see as bad. Your words are rich my friend, so rich with deep sense of understanding. Yes, only expanded awareness will bring us back home. Nature need to be cherished and appreciated and not just for the gains but for their beauty and all they bring.
May we be the ones to set an example!
Yes, you are absolutely right.
Now we are something like Earth's cancer cells. There is one great movie - La belle verte. Someday maybe our planet will look like the planet from the movie :)
I am not familiar with that movie. Sounds like a view I'd appreciate!
I am following your blog and from what I see, I think you will enjoy the movie very much! :)
I'll be checking it out! Thanks for the recommendation @danielpetk.
Wow! This is what we call eco system in biology. One thing surely depend on another, nothing is completely useless except we don't know the value. God bless you dear @everlove
Everything surely is connected and our actions really do affect the whole. Glad you can see it @olamilekan21. It's a powerful awareness that can change our relationship with everything.
Sure, if we understand the strength and weakness of everything around us, relating or interacting with them would become as simple as simple itself 😍😍😍
I agree, the truth is that we must think a little more about the future of the planet we are leaving to our children, and work a little more from our environment to contribute to the care and preservation of our mother earth. I believe that with an attitude of conservation that each of us brings to the day, significant change could be achieved.
If everyone does something change could happen quickly. Hopefully people will stop being so complacent and take responsibility for being a part of making things better for everyone. Our children deserve an amazing world - it is our responsibility to leave it better than we found it. Thanks for the comment @marycc.
Yes, humans are indeed selfish creatures. Quite mindless too.
This is a thoughtful post.
I'm grateful for @quinneaker and his sharing of so many important facets of awareness--hence us living it at the @gardenofeden!
Absolutely love the processing on that photo. Phenomenal work :)
Thanks @chaseburnett. It was an incredibly foggy morning and I have a whole series of these beauties. I'm glad you appreciate it.
I buy recycled tp, the brown unbleached recycled if I can (but there is only one store that sells that and they are far away, so it doesn't always happen because I don't drive), but yeah, I wish sprayers and bidets were common here so at least we might use LESS. Of course, it's even worse than just more tp being used, because people here use wet wipes since there is no sprayer! They (hopefully) put them in the trash, but some put them down the toilet and then they clog the plumbing and clog the water treatment plants and... sigh.
One day I will not be surviving barely by my fingertips and I will have a sustainable home, I hope. In the meantime I try and lessen my damage living in this system of madness.
Life in society is not set up to be sustainable or earth friendly. Humans actually make it hard to be good to nature. Most people really live for convenience, not for values, so it's easy to turn the other way while someone else carries away or covers up our destruction. Wipes are an obvious manifestation of that.
Doing what we can to make change, and also moving ourselves into a position to where we will be able to live a more sustainable reality, is at least a step in a beneficial direction. I hope your dream will be a reality for you--your heart is in the right place!