Natural History Lesson

History teaches us much; throughout
the ages those with creative talent
have been dependent on others who
have amassed fortunes to promote their
incomparable genius in music, art and
literature, from the greats like da Vinci 
and Shakespeare, Mozart and Einstein
without whose exquisite extension of
nature's given talents the world would
be bereft of transcendent events and
lofty beauty. But there is an even more
universal patron upon whom all of
humankind depends for generosity in
the bounty of her dominion enabling
her creatures to live and to thrive in
her domain where nature encourages
diversity and resource entitlements to
those whose need is great. To her much
is owed. To her much is attributed and
that includes her own capricious nature
never hesitating to expose vulnerable
creatures to the anomalous destruction
compelled by upheavals until her own
curiosity is satiated as she picks delicately
among the ashes to devise new life forms
among which she does not discriminate
caring equally for bacteria, reptiles,
viruses, aquatic forms and land animals 
such as humans. Perhaps she deplores that
her humans view themselves superior
sending pathogens to plague us as her
own inimitable lesson in humility.