NATURE AT WORK - part 2: Eternity

"Consider a flowering plant: its new leaves stretching open, reaching for the life-giving sun; its roots anchoring deep into the earth, drawing sustenance into itself. As if prompted by an invisible imperative, it forms its blossom and develops its fruit. In time its flower magically unfolds, inviting response to its sensual delights of color and scent. Nature, in turn, participates in pollinating and thereby furthering the development of the wondrous seed hidden within the fruit. Soon, after this co-operative celebration of life, the plant concentrates the total of its energies into the ripening fruit and maturing seed. In the end, as the plant declines and rests, perhaps terminating itself, the seed detaches and falls to the earth, continuing the perpetuating mystery of existence…Herein lies the secret of eternity."

Hexagram 32, Enduring — The I Ching Workbook by R.L. Wing

Drawing by WildCherry