The Rook
NATURE
The Rook
13 April 2025
Reading my Book of British Birds (published 1969 and reprinted 2007) I was struck by humankind's cruelty based upon superstition fuelled by any and every religion and denomination variant.
It's start point seems to be that nature is subordinate because human beings are “outside” Nature because, Adam was created by God and then God created Eve from Adam, conveniently making women subordinate to men in their religious thinking.
That this superstition exists as strongly as we enter the second-half of the 21st century is worrying.
As a created species within Nature I found myself uncomfortably surmising whether it might be time that Nature ejected us in similar fashion to that of the dinosaurs, thereby enabling Nature to reset, and recalibrate?
I learn that, contrary to what people thought, the Rook is a sociable bird. It is sophisticated and cares for its nestlings. The parents work as a team. As I study different species of birdlife each morning, I find that their life is ordered and disciplined. The parents will work together. Some will build the nests together, whilst others it is the male who makes the nest. Others again will share the incubation, and if the incubation is by the hen only, both parents will work together in feeding their nestlings. It is a fascinating revelation to study any and every aspect of Nature. I cannot in any way attain even a fraction. But when I study Nature, and I stay away from the news channels and the newspapers, I find myself spending even more time in the garden where there is an incredible sense of peace and wellbeing. mine is the size of the tiniest coinage, yet for me, it is a vast estate.
My friend RS in Germany sent me a quotation by Albert Einstein. It sums up perfectly my approach to life.
And for those who worry themselves that I’ve gone off the rails, I say only this, that the assurance I have is best expressed in From Death and Back to Life ~ The Quantum Leap.
Live and Let Live.
“It is absolutely possible that beyond the perception of our senses, unimagined worlds are hidden.”
Initial Draft 13 April 2025 from pencilled note 12 April 2025
15 April 2025
