I am unsure how some of the photos were made or whether anything is computer enhanced. However, it is a beautiful representation of the interdependence of nature.
In the past, that which some took as destructive, the wolf, was removed from Yellowstone Park. Yellowstone was diminished in ways unforeseen.
However, reintroduction of the wolf in the recent couple of decades or so has restored balance. The elk population has been cut in half or so to get it to a stable level. This has allowed the aspens to reemerge as the overpopulation of elk do not keep them stripped. The aspen resurgence has allowed the beavers to fell trees that have blocked some stream water. The blocked stream water has led to regrowth of lakes. The regrowth of lakes has added enormously to biodiversity. On and on it goes.
Do not take the chain of interdependence I recounted here as gospel, for I am reconstructing from memory. It is this or very close to it, though.
We are all interdependent. People are not separate from the true royal dance and we must remind ourselves of the hidden virtue in those we see as enemies.
I'll try!
ReplyDeleteYeah, me too. But, some days I just want to be the wolf.
DeleteSo if we take this to its logical extension, the bad guys are here to keep the number of good guys in balance. And vice versa. Or the bad guys are here to keep prisons full and prison guards employed. Hey - this is fun - the bizarro metaphors are infinite.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I agree with you. I'd simply add smartasses are here to keep the philosophers on their toes. :-)
I'm a big fan of bizarro metaphors, shackman. And, these could easily balloon into some patio BBQ hilarity as we keep extending!
DeleteVery informative, consort. Brings home the knowledge that we do not live in a vacuum, man nor animal.
ReplyDeleteBlessings - Maxi
Quite so, Maxi. Much as we like to decide things as though it were so, although that is how an ecosystem works. Everyone does his own little isolated thing and the result is this organic waltz.
DeleteEnemies too are part of the ecosystem. An elk would consider a wolf as an enemy, as would the aspen the elk. We need enemies to teach us how not to be and more importantly how to be. But we do need to keep reminding ourselves about this.
ReplyDelete"teach s how not to be and mor importantly how to be" is in and of itself so fertile as a concept.
Deletehmmm ... missed a couple of letters there.
DeleteI understand. I suffer from arthritis of the brain whereas you seem to be afflicted with arthritis of the fingers. Unless of course you are using the tiny gadget you lug around to comment on your blogs!
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