Who produces who?
I was reading a bit of Emily Bronte's book, Wuthering Heights, wherein I was reading about the heather that grew in the fields. I think it was talking about the heather sustaining her. I'm not sure, but it got me to thinking about the food we eat. We grow crops and raise animals to be eaten. We produce these that they may sustain us, eventually leading to producing more of us. Thus, we produce plants and livestock that they may produce us. So who's producing who here? Pretty funny thought. Cyclical, really. You can't get away from the fact that it is a mutually beneficial relationship, but who's got it better? Sure we have the freedom and control, and so you might immediately say without thinking that we've obviously got it better. But consider for a moment how much more protected their existence is than ours. If they go, we go. But if we go, well, who cares? So we are going to do all that we can to protect, nurture and even enhance their quality of life, because our quality of life is wholly dependent on how healthy they are. A symbiotic relationship; who would have thunk?
By the way, do you know of any greater species than ourselves that might consider putting us on an endangered species list? I didn't think so.
posted by ...Ney @ 1:00 a.m.
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It is an interesting thought. But really, we depend on the animals & the plants, the animals depend on the plants, and the plants depend on the sun. So if the sun goes, we're all screwed :P To me, that's an even more interesting thought. And what more? It takes about eight minutes for light emitted from the sun's surface to reach us on earth so if the sun did die out, we wouldn't even know about it for eight minutes...wow! ;)
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Hey amonymous, it's funny that you should marvel at the sun. I have been doing just that over the past few weeks of spring weather. Ya see, with my day job, I've been spending the afternoons outside in the beautiful glow and warmth of the sun, and I marvel at it as well. I lay or sit there thinking, wow, I'm feeling that blazing ball of gases' warmth on my face. It feels so so nice and soothing, and yet it's not burning me up. It's at just the right degree and temperature for me to enjoy it! Wow, yeah, I sure marvel at the Son.
xeric, trying to picture a wild cow was fun! Similarly, I have marvelled, once I heard of the phenomenon, at the idea of wild horses. Growing up in the suburbs kept me thinking that the only horses alive were controlled by man. When I found out about wild horses, I was stunned. I thought a lot about that. I still want to take a trip to go see some wild horses.
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