Nature.........its so divine

Today I have been for a doctor appointment, and for getting home I had to take a bus. It was a rainy day with scattered showers the trademark of Seattle. As I walked on the sidewalk I was observing the tiny shrubs and plants which grow there. The greenery was so lush, it was like a miniature forest. There were all sorts of plants, some big and some small. Some plants had flowers on them, so were just so different. These plants are not those which we see in people's gardens, or their pots.

Something made me think what if I have one plant at home in my balcony pot. So I took a moment to bend and reach for one plant. I was careful but not careful enough and it broke loose from its root. Something snapped it me, it made me feel so guilty. I suddenly realized how delicate the nature and its creations are and how one desperate attempt to capture it goes in vain and leads to destruction of life. We humans mostly talk of loss of life in terms of animal life mostly. But I felt how short sighted our approach to life is.

Nature and most of what comprises nature is a symbol of freedom and is so divine. It cannot be copied nor recreated. What might be possible with best of efforts is to just maintain it, and that in itself seems impossible, looking at what modernization has brought into the world. We humans have to bend in humility before nature and its creator as they are far superior and beyond what we can understand or explain. As I look at earth today, I have great fears for our future generations, who might not be able to see the beauty we are now able to see.

In a nutshell we can preserve a forest, but cannot plant one. If we plant it will be a garden not a forest. What God controls is true nature, and what we create is only a poor replica, without its true essence.