Gardening in Harmony with Nature
Gardening in harmony with nature requires thought and if
you, like me, seek to encourage more wildlife in to the garden,
then you will need to learn a little about the wildlife you
wish to encourage. At last we are accepting 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.
