Nature isn’t just the beauty of the moon or the wonder of the new shoots that grow, the beauty of animals, trees and stars.
Nature is the cancer that killed your loved one (made so exhausted, so pain-filled, so scared), the chemical imbalance in your brain causing your depression, the plague that wiped out 1/3 of Europe or more. The genetic mutations that make so many people’s lives short, excruciating, exhausting.
Nature is the fury of the elements, the wild fires, hurricanes and tsunamis that have killed millions of people. Nature is the drought that makes the crops fail and takes the lives of Africans slowly, painfully, year upon year.
Nature is the meaninglessness of death. Nature is the piglet that was accidentally crushed by its mother, the baby elephant rejected to die alone, the walrus pup that dies because there was no ice block near enough for it to rest upon.
Nature is not forgiving. Nature is not kind. Nature is not fair.
Life giver. Death bringer. To truly love nature you must face the truth eye to eye and accept all of it. Can you?
