Flora, fauna, foliage, & fusion

Since returning to North Carolina from my life in the Arizona desert, I have been overwhelmed by greenness. Trees, bushes, vines, lawns, meadows. Green, green, green!




If there is a holy color for Earth's inhabitants, it is surely green. Some might argue that since water is essential for life, the holy color should be blue. However, water isn't really blue, it's colorless; the sky merely makes it seem blue.

In the final analysis, life is energy manifest. Water and other elements are essential ingredients, but without energy there can be no life. And from where comes our energy? All energy is fundamentally nuclear energy. Our main source is the nuclear reactor in the sky, the sun, which radiates light and heat. The heat provides a climate to support life, but it is light that is the key.

And plants are the medium through which light energy is stored and made useable by the Earth's fauna, including us. Oil, coal, firewood, vegetables, fruits, and meat–at root, all are the products of sunlight via photosynthesis.

          When you say your nightly prayer,
               Here's an item you doewanna miss.
          If for life you truly care
               Give thanks for photosynthesis.

                  Isn't green a lovely color?

Read: The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight --Joseph Chilton Pearce

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