TheBanyanTree: Plants

[B Drummond]

On Mar 12, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Laura wrote:

> On went the lid, and I was done.  <sigh>  Now what?

Suggestion: how about taking a little time in the interim between the  
planting of the seeds and the plants making their appearance to  
ponder the miracle of the birth of the plant from a seed, the miracle  
of life continuing, of DNA codes of such complexity that they put to  
shame the most complex computer codes ever written, and somehow that  
super complex knowledge is remarkably carried over and infused in  
that tiny little seed.  Or pondering how all the characteristics of  
that plant to be,  in all its stages of life, including preparing to  
die and pass on again untold generations of the savvy needed to  
survive, ponder somehow it placing that vast, complex, and amazing  
code it into its own seeds. And ponder your hand in all happening  
partly because you took the time to put those seeds into that  
planter.  Ponder that none of it would happen without nuclear fusion  
raging 93 million miles miles away, while you, not dizzy at all from  
while spinning around in a circle at 1000 miles an hour, while the  
ground you walk not only is spinning at 1000 miles an hour but  
traveling around that nuclear fusion source at 67,000 mph -- all  
while you help make life continue by dropping that seed into your  
planter from your backyard.  Ponder that it's all truly more than  
wonderful and it's all way past amazing . . .  and ponder . . . long  
and hard . . . that so are you.



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