Frosty Spring

A pure, humble life is a healthy, beautiful life. That is my philosophy. The word beautiful belongs to pure, healthy nature. As someone once said, “Health is beauty, beauty is health.” In order for this quote to have been said, someone had to study the laws of Mother Nature.
As I sit down to write, my thoughts are taking me on a long journey. It’s a walk through a big, rich, beautiful garden underneath our sky. As I am walking, I look at the life of nature. I observe the plants, the trees and the fruit trees. I see some fruit bearing trees and others which are fruitless. They are all beautiful trees. The fruit trees I call beautiful women, mothers. They need healthy strong support in order to bare healthy fruit, year after year. As I continue to walk through this garden, I envision a woman, a mother, standing behind every flower and every fruit tree that I encounter. The woman has tears in her eyes and there is a child standing behind her waiting. They wait, but they haven’t been helped yet. Is anyone there?
Earth’s soil, fruit trees, women, children and truth are all waiting and crying for help, but no one is here and no one is there. Who can help this earth to stay green except them? These latter words cannot melt away. Health is beauty, beauty is health. God’s name has most certainly come into consideration when laws of nature were examined. It is they – the soil, the fruit trees, women, children and truth who are waiting. Nature’s law has dedicated the word beautiful to them.
I see our 21st century weak, sad and lacking healthy investments. The unripened green fruit is tasteless; yet, it is being ripped from the arms of mother trees. Innocent young children are torn from their nests, their cradles, their dreams, and their mothers’ arms before their time. They are as green as the green fruit, and like birds without feathers. However, somewhere, during their lifetime their health will be captured, and they will suffer the consequences. How sad! Taken away! But why? First they are pulled and then they are pushed. Why?
We are building walls between plants, animals, fish and the birds. These walls are between nature and us. They are walls which we will not be able to tear down. These walls are not high enough to stop the unknown diseases from climbing over from the other side. Too many women and mothers are also pushed and pulled in their homes, at work and in the streets. They are asked to be what they are not, and what they were not meant to be.
Earth’s soil is not responsible for the changes that took place in this world. Innocent children did not change this world. Women and mothers did not change this world, and, yet, the world did change. It’s not their fault. Family values have been lost. It’s not their fault. Pure truth did not change this earth. The earth’s soil, fruit trees, women, children and truth are still waiting. It’s a hot summer day. World, can you take a step and walk away from the ice? Can we help them? How lucky can we be! For the first time we will be able to help ourselves in our beautiful garden.
This is my philosophy and my old news. World, can you put together the mixed-up puzzle and tell me what is your philosophy? The wave is too high. These words cannot melt away. I can see that it will be the good old Mother Nature’s law coming to the rescue once again to heal this earth.
Radenko Fanuka

Fanuka, has someone here at least welcomed you? I don’t know if that matters, but I think it is a bit polite. So, welcome. :laughing: :laughing:

“Beautiful garden”, “trees, plants, beatiful people”…o “Lord”, what have you read guy? I think people like you shouldn’t have been born in such a world, Fanuka. Don’t take the offense. You just seem to be too sensitive (surely you are more sensitive than all the others here). I don’t blame you. You can’t bear living in such a materialist world and so you “travel” to an idealist one- a world where someone give a damn to beautiful things. That’s not our world, I am sure. In our world, everything that is not completely related to money and to physical pleasure is worthless. But people don’t ealize that if all that matters is that, then nothing really matters. Contemplate nature, feel like a part of it (and we are sure a part of it, not a special part, but also a part) is something that sounds good sometimes…sometimes.

Sometimes it sounds good to feel completely integrated to it (we and nature like only one being). That eases the terror. That makes life less unbearable. That makes us bear the fact that we are living in such a rotten world.

I don’t see him as merely idealistic. He’s stating a problem and proposing a vague solution that has to do with making a choice to look for the beauty and kinship with Earth. A lot of times problems can be solved by finding a different aesthetic, one that points us toward a more peaceful and effortless existence, one more in tune with our nature. In these cases, we find that we’ve been getting in the way of ourselves, doing extra work when what we needed was to let go of something.

I don’t agree with his solution, but I do see it as more than mere idealistic blathering. It’s pure pragmatism in disguise.

Also, the idea that somehow women and children do not contribute to the overall state of things seems fallacious to me. To resort to anecdotal evidence, the more I deal with women and children, the more I see that their values, choices (these creatures, like men, do have free will, if even such a thing exists) and aesthetic leanings away from the “natural state” have just as much to do with the perceived decline or injustices that effect those around us. If anything, children are even more insensitive to nature and other people. Women can be more contentious, vane and selfish than men. We like to strike a beatific pose of Earth Mother…I suspect in many cases our stance against power is sour grapes. The female of the species is more deadlier than the male in many cases.

Finally, any delineation you try to create between “man” and “nature” will be fruitless. We are not the first species to inflict damage on ourselves and others. What’s MORE natural…loving Earth and eachother or wanting to conquer Earth and eachother? The latter seems more effortless, so one can argue that any attempt at the opposite tac is anti-nature. It IS a tac I welcome in the end, for I am IDEALISTIC and admit it. But I make no mistake calling my aims any more natural than George Bush’s.

Saying the Earth needs healing IS mere poetry. The Earth is and has always been one sick puppy. Just because it doesn’t jibe with your inner poetic aesthetic of what it could be…some kind of Eden-like utopia…doesn’t mean it needs healing. It is what it is. It would be myopic indeed to miss the fact that bombs, metal, aspartame, racism, cigarettes, real estate moguls and oppressive regimes are every bit as natural as sycamore seeds twirling in the breeze. You don’t like nature’s face today…you want to change it and mold it into something it is not. (Nothing could be more natural.) Good luck…nothing wrong with that. I’ll help! But labeling yourself a naturalist to the exclusion of others is a self-righteous delusion…it is neither pure nor humble.