Gardening in Harmony with Nature
Gardening
in harmony with nature requires thought and if you, like
me, seek to encourage more wildlife into the garden, then
you will need to learn a little about the wildlife you wish
to encourage. At last we are now beginning to accept the fact
that mankind is but a part of nature and that nature is not
the enemy of man, but nature will always make an enemy of
any one or anything that tries to place limits on change,
growth and natural evolution. It is essential that mankind
learn to work in harmony with all life with whom we share
this incredible planet Earth. Gardeners need to embrace the
life forms and species they persist in regarding 'pests' and
'weeds'. For a gardener to attempt to eradicate any life form
from a garden is, in my sincere opinion, a form of genocide.
To consider any life form inferior to ourselves or to be of
the opinion that we have some God given right to kill because
a life form offends our eyes or is simply considered distasteful
by a percentage of the population or 'experts' whom we believe
are all knowing, is, in my most profound opinion, an evil
we must eradicate from our very own selves! At the moment
gardeners are perpetuating an evil persecution of life form
and species with whom we share this planet. This persecution
must stop now.
I remember chatting to a gardener once. She was picking caterpillars
off a plant and grinding their bodies to pulp under the sole
of her shoe. We were talking about a butterfly with wings
spead on a plant nearby. "That's why I love gardening
so," she gushed. "That butterfly is so beautiful.
Nature's incredible, isn't it?" was her question to me
as she picked off another caterpillar - that particular species
of butterfly's offspring - and killed it with one brutal stamp
of her foot! That gardener was ignorant and worst of all she
was ignorant of her ignorance. That hypocrisy, that ignorance
must stop and it must stop now. Recommend this website to
all your friends and help put a stop to gardeners ignorance
everywhere.
All life forms add their own colour to the world and it is
important we embrace all the colours with equal value.
