Timeless Embrace
Haven't we evolved from brutish human-like creatures descended from the flotsam that rose out of the roiling seas to become what we now are. Presumably we are still evolving. Certainly Nature cannot see satisfaction in our current state of awareness. Our emotions are not yet sufficiently matured, for one thing. Our life-span is likely enough of a patience-ebbing irritation to her; witnessing our inability to live together in harmony.
Not with the other creatures with which she has inhabited this Earth of ours, nor with one another. Surely her patience with us owes largely to her ownership of time and space and history. Our time and space and history to be certain. We have no idea how far her realm reaches, whether Nature is herself responsible on a far larger scale for the forms that revolve as they evolve in the very heavens above.
It was, to be sure, kind of her - although to attribute anthropoid-like actions and human emotions to a force beyond our understanding, responsible for our having gradually appeared on the world stage, let alone our inability to comprehend the unflinching balance of nature, and her exquisite indifference to any of the life-forms she has created - to allow humankind the ability to think, to envision, to create and to forge our own environment within hers.
She's doubtless complacent witnessing in her own way our advances and our dreadful errors along the way to becoming what we now are. Highly faulted creatures of unbearable aggravation toward one another, incapable of living in peace, as she initially mandated. But then, perhaps from boredom, perhaps impelled by her own mischievous fascination with possibilities, all her creatures have reacted on their environment, the strong devouring the weak.
All of us, from the minuscule, uncomplicated amoeba, to the complex Great Apes of which humankind is one, were instilled with our most critical visceral instinct; survival. One of whose instruments is to secure a mate, ensure ownership of territory sufficient unto quotidian-survival needs. The second is the genetic instilling of parental protective emotions toward one's offspring.
This is a primary emotion which remains as intact as when it was first imprinted on living organisms, those that were meant to support the needs of frail young. What greater confirmation do we need than the Stone-age remains discovered in the Sahara Desert by American paleontologists. A highly meaningful, acutely telling trio of human skeleton remains, buried for discovery, five thousand years later.
One skeleton, that of a small woman. She faces the skeletal remains of two young children. Her bony arms stretched toward those of her young, as though to encircle, comfort and protect them through time immemorial.
Not with the other creatures with which she has inhabited this Earth of ours, nor with one another. Surely her patience with us owes largely to her ownership of time and space and history. Our time and space and history to be certain. We have no idea how far her realm reaches, whether Nature is herself responsible on a far larger scale for the forms that revolve as they evolve in the very heavens above.
It was, to be sure, kind of her - although to attribute anthropoid-like actions and human emotions to a force beyond our understanding, responsible for our having gradually appeared on the world stage, let alone our inability to comprehend the unflinching balance of nature, and her exquisite indifference to any of the life-forms she has created - to allow humankind the ability to think, to envision, to create and to forge our own environment within hers.
She's doubtless complacent witnessing in her own way our advances and our dreadful errors along the way to becoming what we now are. Highly faulted creatures of unbearable aggravation toward one another, incapable of living in peace, as she initially mandated. But then, perhaps from boredom, perhaps impelled by her own mischievous fascination with possibilities, all her creatures have reacted on their environment, the strong devouring the weak.
All of us, from the minuscule, uncomplicated amoeba, to the complex Great Apes of which humankind is one, were instilled with our most critical visceral instinct; survival. One of whose instruments is to secure a mate, ensure ownership of territory sufficient unto quotidian-survival needs. The second is the genetic instilling of parental protective emotions toward one's offspring.
This is a primary emotion which remains as intact as when it was first imprinted on living organisms, those that were meant to support the needs of frail young. What greater confirmation do we need than the Stone-age remains discovered in the Sahara Desert by American paleontologists. A highly meaningful, acutely telling trio of human skeleton remains, buried for discovery, five thousand years later.
One skeleton, that of a small woman. She faces the skeletal remains of two young children. Her bony arms stretched toward those of her young, as though to encircle, comfort and protect them through time immemorial.
Labels: Bioscience, Miscellaneous, Nature
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