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To understand how nature sustains life, we need to move
from biology to
ecology, because
sustained life is a property of an
ecosystem rather than a single
organism or species.
Ecological literacy
means understanding the principles of organization of ecosystems that
sustain the
web of life.
The waste of one form of life is the sustenance of
another form of life; organic matter cycles continually through the web of
life; photons flowing form the sun
drive ecological cycles; diversity
assures resilience.
Life
colonized the planet through symbosis not conquest.
These are
different aspects of a single
fundamental pattern of organization that has enabled nature to sustain
complex life for millions of years.
Nature sustains life by creating and
nurturing communities.
No individual organism can exist
in isolation.
Animals
depend on the photosynthesis of plants for their energy needs.
Plants
depend on the carbon dioxide produced by animals, as well as on the nitrogen
fixed by bacteria at their
roots; and together plants, animals, and microorganisms regulate the entire
biosphere and maintain the conditions conducive to life.
Sustainability
is not an individual property but a property of an entire web of relationships.
Sustainability always involves
a whole community.
Sustainability does not mean that things remain
the same as sustainability is a dynamic process of co-evolution rather than a
static state.
Ecologically literacy understands ecological
sustainability involves a web of
fluctuating patterns of organization of symbiotic
relationships.
"As a
fragile and lovely flower
unfolds its gleaming foliage
on the breast of the fostering Earth,
if the dew and the rain draw
it forth;
So doth my tender mind flourish,
if it be fed
with the sweet dew of the fostering spirit,
Lacking this, it beginneth
straightway to languish,
even as a flower born upon dry
earth,
if the dew and the rain tend it not."
Ezra Pound
The truth is found in the simple and
intricate messages of smell.
I smelled the wind today.
What precisely it smelled like I can not say.
Only that there
was a hint of spicy pine and
the rich scent of wet earth.
I have been thinking about smells
because I have never noticed them before.
I live in a house in the
country, far beyond the limits of the city and nestled along the shores of Lake
Superior.
The area around me is heavily wooded with a winding dirt road
that cuts a clearing through the cedars,
spruces and birches.
The
dark recess of the forest is
a hub of continuous activity.
The light, playful sounds of the many
birds and squirrels, and the
heavier cracks and thumps of deer and other large animals as they go about
their day, are constant.
Numerous small streams trickle from within
these hidden areas and run laughing through culverts under the road to the
waiting lake.
In the summer, the
floor of the forest
fascinates me with the soft moss and
beautiful, delicate
flowers that carpet the ground beneath the
towering trees.
In the
winter, I love the way the snow lies
heavily on the boughs of the evergreens and the quiet the deep cold brings.
On a walk early one morning, while I was admiring the
melting snow and enjoying the warmth of the sun on my back, that it hit
me.
The wind had a smell!
Not just a smell, but every scent from
every item in the vast wilderness
around me was carried by the wind.
I had not been aware of it before, I
understood perfectly that these scents contained a message - the messages of
scent carried aloft by the wind.
My prehistoric ancestors once mastered the
secrets locked in these scents, but that ability has been lost to me: I can
understand, however, that these messages cannot be unlocked by my conscious
mind.
I know that these
scents can only be translated by the
subconscious instincts within me.
I
imagine that the language of
scent can be both simple and complex.
Each
scent is unique.
Scents
cannot lie and they cannot bluff.
Animals sniff their food and learn to
distinguish by smell what is safe to eat and what will make them sick.
There is no deceit or treachery in a smell; there is
only the truth.
Perhaps this is why humans have lost the ability to
understand the language of scent.
We use our language to hide,
to confuse and, only
rarely, to tell the truth.
People have forgotten the
truth of Nature.
The truth is found in the simple and
intricate messages of smell.
Smell is the silent,
fragrant language of nature.
-
adapted from Lynley Scott
"It is not accidental that all phenomena of human
life are dominated by the search
for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man
included, with the surrounding nature." - Ivan Pavlov
"Ultimately, I believe,
the discovery reveals
the genetic infrastructure of the myriad species on the tree of life is
actually far more "open access," and therefore both resilient/changeable and
fragile, than ever before imagined.
In other words, non-coding RNAs
make possible a horizontal
process of 'communicating," 'exchanging,' and incorporating vitally important
information in a relatively free manner, and in real time versus glacial
time.
And as a result, species, across all kingdoms, are integrated into
a web-like interdependence
and co-evolutionary
collaboration that was hitherto considered, from the
perspective of
molecular
biology, genetics, and
orthodox evolutionary biology,
impossible." - Sayer Ji
"We live in a cooperative
biological world which possess many features of life, most notably homeostatic
regulation of temperature, gases, salinity, and
other variables.
Each species contributes some way to the
metabolism and
homeostasis of
the planet.
Coral creates lagoons that help remove salt from
the ocean, which would otherwise double in
salinity in just 60 million years.
Photosynthesizing algae and
rainforests produce the oxygen that sustains animal life, while other
mechanisms prevent oxygen levels from going too high and
sparking devastating
planet-wide forest fires.
Bacteria accelerate rock weathering to
bring carbon out of the atmosphere, while marine
animals eventually turn that carbon into shells ultimately sequestered on
the ocean floor.
And something, some combination of organic and
inorganic processes, has kept earth's surface temperature stable as
the sun's apparent brightness has
increased by 30 or 40% over three billion years." -
Charles
Eisenstein
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