This is the milky way our galaxy with our star, the sun, just a small unseen dot, it is just one of trillions of stars and galaxies out there.
Yesterday, a baby blue jay fledgling had left its nest and it could not fly yet . It was sitting under a tall maple tree on my front lawn. I was cutting the grass and it moved under one of our cars to get away from the danger. It sat there for hours under the front wheel as its mother was trying to coax it to fly. The next few hrs would determine wither it will survive or not . A huge hawk was flying over head and we have stray cats that always come out at dark. If I didn't see it and moved the car it would have been crushed. Anyway, I have learned over the years to not interfere with nature. It will either fly or die. Sounds cruel, but, its natures way. A large percentage of these young small birds and animals do not survive more then a few hrs or days. But, somehow their species do survive and they often thrive. Blue jays and Orioles are here in larger numbers, for some reason this year. This morning the baby and mother was gone. I will never know if the little thing learned to fly or if it became a food source for another bird or animal.
Nature has an intelligence which we do not understand . It does not think like humans, but, it has an infinite intelligence that is in control of massive ecosystems all over the earth. It knows how to keep everything in perfect harmony and balance. I am sure it can handle mankind too. We are part of the global ecosystem, and yes, we do a lot of damage to nature, but, I will venture to say that long after mankind has disappeared from this planet life will still be flourishing here. The earth as a whole is like a single organism, it is a living planet and it is self organizing and self adapting. We are on this little blue ball, floating in space in the middle of a small solar system with planets spinning around an insignificant star in an insignificant galaxy that is in a remote region of our universe. Our galaxy is just one among billions. Life on our little spec of a planet is amazing and nature just like our universe is being managed with an amazing, infinite intelligence, and it is beyond our finite, intellectual understanding. We can only appreciate its mystery and stand in awe at its glory.
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