As I am reading Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, which launched the modern environmentalist movement, I found this passage about bees: “Several hundred species of wild bees take part in the pollination of cultivated crops – 100 species visiting the flowers of alfalfa alone. Without insect pollination, most of the soil-holding and soil-enriching plants of uncultivated areas would die out, with far-reaching consequences to the ecology of the whole region. Many herbs, shrubs, and trees of forests and range depend on native insects for their reproduction; without these plants many wild animals and range stock would find little food. Now clean cultivation and the chemical destruction of hedgerows and weeds are eliminating the last sanctuaries of these pollinating insects and breaking the threads that bind life to life.” We humans are a stupid, arrogant species. We are killing ourselves as we kill our beautiful planet. We have failed to appreciate what a wonderful place we have had.
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 07:24:53 +0000
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