Have you
ever stopped to wonder at how remarkable our world is? I mean, take plants, for
an example. They draw nutrients from dirt, water, and the sun. They then
rearrange those nutrients to form building blocks to make the plant larger –
and they may seem like they grow pretty slow, but if you compare them to humans
they grow at an alarming rate. They also just happen to filter the air into
something other life forms need to breathe.
Of course,
plants then become food for animals. The animals draw nutrients from the plants
they eat, once again converting them into the building blocks they need to grow. And then other
animals eat those animals, and so on.
And then
they all die. Bugs eat them (and are, in their turn, eaten) and turn them all
into nutrient-rich dirt – which goes on to feed the plants.
As if that
circle of life wasn’t remarkable enough, just look at how life symbiotically
helps each other. Look at plants, once again. By providing pollen and nectar, they
feed creatures that can then spread that pollen, helping the plants to
reproduce and spread their populations. Plants are so useful as a food source
and as building materials that humans plant vast fields of them and raise them
with great care.
In fact, it’s
so convenient that it almost seems orchestrated. I mean, we actively raise
plants, spread them, feed them, protect and nurture them, and exhale the carbon
dioxide they need. Then, when we die, we (eventually) become a rich food source
for them.
It’s almost
as if our whole existence revolves around serving the plants. Like the plants
are farming us and keeping us dependent
upon them by feeding us (or our food) and granting us breathable air.
All hail
our beneficent plant overlords.
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