Not Arrived At Soylent Green, Yet

We live in a beautiful world—I mean physically, the world with its vast array of animal and plant and marine life is extraordinary. Just recently as I was editing photos of some rather friendly seagulls that I took the other day.  I had to pause. I could not help but admire the beauty and gracefulness in their movements. In a photo that I took, one bird appeared to be standing, supported by his tail feather while hoovering almost motionless it seemed. The sight to me was fascinating.

 

Yet again, this... 

                           ...a small reminder to me of the amazing design of nature—this meek co-existence often residing so quietly in the background of our lives.

Whatever may become of nature in the future—of animal life, plant life or the entire earth—one thing is for certain. We can all say that once...once we were given an exquisitely beautiful planet on which to live.

G-d in kindness, did not just callously plunk us down on a rocky barren wasteland, giving us good reason to dread the earth around us. No. He gave us a lush home—an entire planet which He abundantly filled with some pretty awesome forms of life—a planet of limitless beauty. Even today in this age of global warming, there's still a lot of unspoiled beauty in nature. We have not arrived at “Soylent Green” yet. 

Perhaps we never will. Perhaps...

Somehow I have the awful fear that long before that could happen man, in his quest to dominate and control others, would probably devise some high-tech contraptions with which he would be able to bore massively deep holes into the earth, cause cataclysmic and unalterable changes in the atmosphere or frack us all to to the point of no return!

 In the meantime, those of us who appreciate nature, will continue to capture birds in flight,  sunsets...

                                            ...and the moon...

                                                             ...and the stars at night.