The Battle Rages On

Yes, it is me again. The fight for my time, attention, and thoughts is continuing and I am sorry that I have not been more focused with those when it comes to my blog. Speaking of fights, there was an interesting article in the newest Smithsonian Magazine on a different kind of battle that caught my attention and I found it quite enlightening. It can all be summed up in the sentence, "Nobody hates nature more than a gardener." "But, wait," you say, "Don't gardeners love and tend nature?" The simple answer to this simple, yet complex, question is: No. Gardeners do all that they can to keep nature from being natural. They fight the bugs, they ban the wildlife, and pull out any plants that may naturally want to grow, yet are not in the gardener's marvelously unnatural plan for the garden. They bring out their artillery of insecticides to spray the enemy with fire and use their army of shovels and spades to hack and tear at the ground. In this battle, the natural world suffers many casualties just to satisfy the gardeners' need for domination over the earth and its plants. Yes, gardeners are the natural enemies of nature and the battle rages on.