The sign went down on the land for sale behind my house. I am filled with dread now. More yellow machines of death will disrupt my peace and hurt my heart. Goodbye carbon sequestered in trees and living plants. Goodbye native Sonoran Desert. Too bad bobcats. The humans have come with their overriding needs. They come first, you see.
We wonder at the illness, physical and mental, more pervasive now than 100 years ago. Symbiosis with our natural world. Is it any wonder we are poisoned as much as we poison our Earth? We fill her waters with fertilizer, pesticides, petrochemicals and industrial waste. We cut down her forests and destroy indigenous life, plant and animal. We tear open her mountains to mine what we think we need.
Some children use up their mothers. The selfish ones. Others respect them and care for them.
Photo by Ali Kazal on Unsplash
We wonder at the illness, physical and mental, more pervasive now than 100 years ago. Symbiosis with our natural world. Is it any wonder we are poisoned as much as we poison our Earth? We fill her waters with fertilizer, pesticides, petrochemicals and industrial waste. We cut down her forests and destroy indigenous life, plant and animal. We tear open her mountains to mine what we think we need.
Some children use up their mothers. The selfish ones. Others respect them and care for them.
Photo by Ali Kazal on Unsplash
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