Quote Originally Posted by CityBoyGoneCountry
Lightning starts a forest fire. Thousands of acres are burned to the ground. Many animals are killed or displaced. In the short term this seems like a bad thing. But in the long term we see the good it actually accomplished. The ground is now replenished and the forest regrows healthier for it.

Maybe human beings are a natural disaster that looks bad at first, but later on we will see the good they have done, whether they meant it to turn out that way or not.
Very interesting ideas! The tapestry on the back might look like a bunch of different colored knots, but turn it over and there is a fabulous design

My belief is that all things can be turned into growth eventually, even if growth means "destruction" and sometimes that destruction includes mistakes and the learning which results- I just hope we don't have to take it to the limit with actual physical destruction. If we just die out- how has mankind grown? But if we recognize our errors and seek to make them right, then wouldn't the evolution of our species be furthered? Isn't that what nature should do? If most of humanity is annihilated because of our mistakes, and we relocate elsewhere just in time (I thik we are running out of time!) maybe is that how we will continue? That is what the flood myths from all civilizations depict-
Thanks for starting this provocative discussion!
liberiamom Reviewed by liberiamom on . I am nature... ? If man is a product of nature, then doesn't it follow that whatever man makes is also a product of nature? When a beaver builds a dam we call it an act of nature. When a man builds a dam we call it interfering with nature. But both the beaver and the man are themselves creations of nature, and both are merely doing what they evolved to do. Is it possible that we were chosen to have intelligence for a reason? Is it possible that we have a greater role to play in the future of our world Rating: 5