Wednesday, May 17, 2023

We're Wild Too


We're wild too: 

of course we're wild too, this forgotten aspect of ourselves that remains intimately linked to the environment, being less separate than we now believe. Not only are we wild, but our very bodies are a wilderness for a host of organisms, teeming with life through the habitat we provide, an ecosystem no less wondrous in design than what earth itself provides for us as home. 

the truth is that wilderness is everywhere, even in what appears to be tamed, controlled, a city street is roamed by a vast amount of insects, birds daring a sweep from a nearby tree to catch them as a meal, smallest mammals surviving mostly in the absence of our sight. We only believe that life is tame, an illusion of safety and ease, and yet we are still mostly at the mercy of every storm, dependent on earth for sustenance, the landscape to provide us a home, and air for the quality of each breath taken. At no point are we ever removed from this ecosystem, even though we feel as a separate world of our own We are intimately linked to every aspect found.

wilderness is everywhere.

and more truly we're wild too, existing mostly as microscopic particles vibrating as a field for other forms to roam. We are as much bacteria, and microbes as we are human cells. Our body is a micro-habitat for this much smaller world to thrive. We are a host, a vast wilderness for life to thrive. 

simply part of a universe of infinite design. 

to remember this, returning ourselves to wilderness...

and we're home.

~

Peace, Eric 


 

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