Yes to letting Mother nature take over. I actually watched a wounded deer collapse on the frozen Raccoon River and then be consumed first by three coyotes followed by eagles until she was completely gone. Just in less than 3 hours. She kept all these animals well fed on a freezing winter day. I wonder if you have coyotes and foxes who love the marsh in your backyard. Right now I have bufflehead ducks floating by and a plague of red winged blackbirds!
The idea of "letting nature take its course" is an easy decision when it is a cumbersome or expensive path that would suggest otherwise. We have all taken that path, probably for the best most of the time. What happens when we begin to move that thought process to those who live around us as fellow humans? Where do let nature take its course, and when do we decide to override Mother Nature as incompetent or unfeeling? This seems to me to be where nature, compassion, spirituality, and expediency all create a labrynth of decisions, not easily sorted out.
Yes, letting nature take its course, as a life philosophy, can begin to look like “doing nothing”. A rather laissez faire stance. I trust nature to know what it is doing. I have less confidence in the flawed, competing and oftentimes duplicitous motivations of the human part of creation.
Yes to letting Mother nature take over. I actually watched a wounded deer collapse on the frozen Raccoon River and then be consumed first by three coyotes followed by eagles until she was completely gone. Just in less than 3 hours. She kept all these animals well fed on a freezing winter day. I wonder if you have coyotes and foxes who love the marsh in your backyard. Right now I have bufflehead ducks floating by and a plague of red winged blackbirds!
The idea of "letting nature take its course" is an easy decision when it is a cumbersome or expensive path that would suggest otherwise. We have all taken that path, probably for the best most of the time. What happens when we begin to move that thought process to those who live around us as fellow humans? Where do let nature take its course, and when do we decide to override Mother Nature as incompetent or unfeeling? This seems to me to be where nature, compassion, spirituality, and expediency all create a labrynth of decisions, not easily sorted out.
Yes, letting nature take its course, as a life philosophy, can begin to look like “doing nothing”. A rather laissez faire stance. I trust nature to know what it is doing. I have less confidence in the flawed, competing and oftentimes duplicitous motivations of the human part of creation.