Parisian Phoenix Publishing

by Larry Sceurman

Technology is a double-edged sword. We need it to sustain and prosper in the world today. At the same time, it puts a wedge between us and nature, the very essence of our soul.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein

The complex and the simplicity is always connected throughout nature. We are different but we are the same, is a theme that rings true in nature as well as ourselves. There are thousands of different types of trees, but yet they all exhibit the same way of growing and they all perform the same purpose, to clean our air and water. 

There are many different types of people, young and old, black ,white, red, and yellow, educated, and uneducated, rich, and poor, and there are thousands of diverse cultures and ways of life that most of us have not experienced. There are a bazillion separate ways we use our creativity and express our imagination.

All these things make us different, but yet we are the same. We have to eat and drink water to survive. We have to sleep and be active. Our emotions are the same, love, anger, jealousy, fear, compassion, and the list goes on. Our wants and needs are pretty much the same. I believe that down deep inside every one of us, there is a need to be loved and to give love. We really do want to get along with each other and nature is the common denominator. Nature does hold the key that unlocks the door to the future, which is necessary for our world to survive.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Henry David Thoreau

I’m of the opinion that everyone and everything has a wildness tucked away inside of them/it. Sometimes we can let the wild come out and we become free, instinctively creative, and one with the universe. There is a wildness that can sit quietly on a hillside and feel the sun’s energy and watch the grass sway with the breeze, and there is another wildness that longs for our souls to dance to primitive rhythms. And when we spy a bird of prey soaring through the sky we have a longing to be by its side sailing in unison. There also is an angry wildness inside us that is frightening and goes out of control to control.

Nature has that wildness, even more so than humankind. Nature does not like to be confined or limited. True nature is not a well-manicured lawn, a park, or arboretum. There is a constant struggle with humankind, a battle of nature’s wildness and the human will to control. And when nature unleashes its angry wildness it is more than frightening, there is a terrifying force that cannot be stopped.

We are finding out that if we leave nature alone and let the wildness go, we will all be better off.

So, I agree with Henry David Thoreau that the wildness is the preservation of the world and that wildness can be the preservation of our soul.