Nature Finds a Way

On this Earth Day, my life went on like any other. Busy with work, a lunch meeting, then as I was heading to my car I noticed something. It was like the earth was trying to remind me. There, just a few yards away, smack in the middle of a paved roundabout was a small grouping of petunia flowers. After I loaded my work items into the car, I had to return to the scene.

This splash of purple flowers against the gray, dead pavement surprised and amazed me. How could it be growing here? There is nothing more than a small hairline crack on this roadway, but that is all it needed. Just enough room for a seed to find nourishment and opportunity.

We call these plants and animals, "nature." Yet, are we not all the same? Shouldn't we all be in the same category? Creatures just trying to survive. Aren't we all?

I wish on this day we have created to remember the earth, we'd take a moment to think of ourselves as being the same as the other creatures we share this blue planet with. It seems we are at war. At war with everything that is different than us. Yet, without these other creatures we would perish.