Uncle Emanuel Watkins
03-28-2009, 03:50 PM
As our bodies are nourished by the shared respiration we have with plants, our minds are likewise nourished by the personified relationship we have with the animals. So, without the plants and animals serving us in such a way, we would be invisible to ourselves.
Here are a few oddities in nature to ponder:
As the heart serves as a pump to move blood within the body of animals, the sun serves as a distant pump to move water within the body of plants.
Ironically, blood and water are analogous in nature because as blood delivers nutrients to the bodies of animals, water likewise delivers nutrients to the bodies of plants.
The sun works as a pump to evaporate the water in leaves from reservoirs called vacuoles that exist at the center of every plant cell, with each cell pumping and emptying out from the ones below it all the way down to the root system in the soil.
Also quite ironic is how the molecular structure of the blood in animals is almost identical to that of the molecular structure of the chloroplasts in plants with the difference in their makeup being a single atom of iron. And, yet, the chloroplasts do not serve the same function in plants as blood does in animals.
Another irony is how water moves within a structure made up of carbon based molecules in plants while carbon based molecules move within a structure of water in animals.
When looking for a womb to give birth to the very first animal cell, one could argue that the ideal incubator exists in the vacuole reservoirs of plant cells.
Of course, the rationale of modern science will claim all this as nothing more than pure speculation;while, at the same time, it has evolved to view the life of human beings to be no more or less significant than the life of a faceless bug.
While it has certainly helped us, modern science has caused us far more persecution by the way it has led governments away from viewing mankind as universal in importance with his and her happiness as centrally existential.
Modern science cannot alter our soul's conscience in how we collectively perceive that which is self-evident and unalienably our natural right. It can, however, condition within us a tolerance when faced with the lessor parts which combine to make us up. This still doesn't change the fact that we grieve deeply when faced with the bloody bits and pieces of a man or woman rather than the whole of his or her being.
Here are a few oddities in nature to ponder:
As the heart serves as a pump to move blood within the body of animals, the sun serves as a distant pump to move water within the body of plants.
Ironically, blood and water are analogous in nature because as blood delivers nutrients to the bodies of animals, water likewise delivers nutrients to the bodies of plants.
The sun works as a pump to evaporate the water in leaves from reservoirs called vacuoles that exist at the center of every plant cell, with each cell pumping and emptying out from the ones below it all the way down to the root system in the soil.
Also quite ironic is how the molecular structure of the blood in animals is almost identical to that of the molecular structure of the chloroplasts in plants with the difference in their makeup being a single atom of iron. And, yet, the chloroplasts do not serve the same function in plants as blood does in animals.
Another irony is how water moves within a structure made up of carbon based molecules in plants while carbon based molecules move within a structure of water in animals.
When looking for a womb to give birth to the very first animal cell, one could argue that the ideal incubator exists in the vacuole reservoirs of plant cells.
Of course, the rationale of modern science will claim all this as nothing more than pure speculation;while, at the same time, it has evolved to view the life of human beings to be no more or less significant than the life of a faceless bug.
While it has certainly helped us, modern science has caused us far more persecution by the way it has led governments away from viewing mankind as universal in importance with his and her happiness as centrally existential.
Modern science cannot alter our soul's conscience in how we collectively perceive that which is self-evident and unalienably our natural right. It can, however, condition within us a tolerance when faced with the lessor parts which combine to make us up. This still doesn't change the fact that we grieve deeply when faced with the bloody bits and pieces of a man or woman rather than the whole of his or her being.