Saturday, August 5, 2023

Fearsome Nature


We are faced daily with news worldwide

of droughts, hurricanes, earthquakes 

floods and landslides, wildfires and cyclonic

rainfalls that turn deadly. Photographs of

firefighters facing wildfire infernos and

mass evacuations with volcanic eruptions

and massive dam failures, communities

facing privation, loss and famine leading to

mass starvation. Nature at its untamed

deadliest unleashing on an unready world

the fracturing effect of extreme elements

answerable to no human agency. Yet the

distemper of the natural world is held to be

nature's reaction to humanity's misuse of

resources at world disposal to advance the

fortunes of humanity carving geological

formations to extract the substances meant

to enhance societies' ease and wealth. And

though a tornado struck nearby our home

wreaking havoc and pain we fortunate ones

take our leisure through standing forests

of nearby approach to revel in the beauty

and majesty of raw nature in the moment.

 

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