EARTH, the most primal of our understandings of the matrix of life; as we stand here seemingly headless looking around taking it in. Trying to understand what is going on to perhaps predict something, with the ever nagging feeling of why? It’s hard jagged edges of cliffs and rocks and kitchen counter tops. It soft centres of mud and sludge and that goop of stuff you find at the centre of a toasted mash-mellow. We wonder at our new tools of fire and the stick, and we wonder what’s next. We play outside and feel the soil; and taste the dirt. We touch the grass and look at the bugs and bees and we wonder!
And as we age our sense of self rises and understanding of the environment we are in takes in a new imperative to understand for “our own” self preservation and joy. The teenage years gift you the urge to procreate and the sadness that life is tough and the nature of things are seemingly unfair and that meaning of it all becomes just that little bit clearer.
We travel further and take in counties, countries, continents and these things we call tectonic plates. Be it with our bodies or our minds we take in new cultures, perspectives and most importantly, we take in new foods. And we wonder at the spice of life. Perhaps it is just spice.
We wonder further until our feet are in the air and we look down from a higher perspective, and we see the beauty in Earth’s very thin skin; and we wonder at the fragility and beauty of this intricate web. And we wonder, and we wonder, and that WONDER never ends!
#DidYouKnow: Soil:
- Soil stores 10% of the world’s carbon dioxide, more than the atmosphere and vegetation combined.
- Agricultural efficiency has increased over the past century from 27.5 acres/worker in 1890 to 740 acres/worker in 1990.
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