The Green Wonder
There is a green wonder
That runs on light
To create splendour
In sheer delight –
An array of colour
Shape and grace
Exceeding imagination
Cramming this place.
Who could have dreamt of such magnificence?
Evolved through time to sate every sense.
Taken for granted until it is gone
At this rate, that will not take long.
The saving grace is that long after we are long gone
The green wonder will right every wrong.
Opher – 11.2.2017
The Green Wonder
Plants are the highest form of life on this planet. Their complexity outshines all else. Their photosynthesis provides the oxygen we breathe and their manufacturing of food provides the basis for nearly all life. It is thanks to the wonderful green organic machines that life has evolved in all its multitude of forms.
Plants are the fundament on which all life builds.
As we inexorably destroy nature and busily turn the planet into a plastic tourist Disneyland of concrete and garbage we will reduce the diversity to nil and pull the rug from under our own feet.
When we have finally succumbed to the inevitable virus there will still be plants to work their wonders. Over the millennia their roots will break through concrete and their biochemical processes will cleanse the planet.
Over a few hundred million years the remaining animals will evolve to exploit the food and habitats created by the green wonder. Once again there will be an array as varied and beautiful. Hopefully, once again intelligence may arise and this time really be intelligent. But even if it does it could never eclipse the most wondrous organism of all.