irony of nature

[mofuggaimjesus]

the other day i was stoned, walking around, and i realized this

trees try to reach for the sky,
but are bound to the ground by roots.


anyone realize that?
or is it just me.
figured i'd come here.

[Hazhavoc]

I guess thats why they grow. Just to reach the sky haha
Big trees are really impressive years and years of growing wow

[buttsplatuken]

People see harmony and beauty in nature, understandably. There IS harmony and beauty in nature. But there's also lot of "viciousness" in the natural cycle. A few months ago, I saw a squirrel fall out of a tree and break almost every bone in it's body . I was hiking through the woods one night, high as hell, and I could hear the male deer mating calls. Deers are fiercely territorial. I could have easily been attacked by one if I had strayed too close...by the noises they were making (scary) I wasn't too far away. My and my friend were just there to enjoy being outside..but to them we were invaders who didn't belong.

[Hazhavoc]

Originally Posted by buttsplatuken

People see harmony and beauty in nature, understandably. There IS harmony and beauty in nature. But there's also lot of "viciousness" in the natural cycle. A few months ago, I saw a squirrel fall out of a tree and break almost every bone in it's body . I was hiking through the woods one night, high as hell, and I could hear the male deer mating calls. Deers are fiercely territorial. I could have easily been attacked by one if I had strayed too close...by the noises they were making (scary) I wasn't too far away. My and my friend were just there to enjoy being outside..but to them we were invaders who didn't belong.

Well i guess to them us humans could just as easily be like the hunters that kill them daily. Its a shame people dont respect nature asmuch as we do

[randomfish]

i like this thought...it can be an analogy(is that the right word?) for many things such as a struggle for freedom, the weight of the world or even societys effect on people...maybe ill squeez this thought into a song lyric sometime

[Digit]

Originally Posted by mofuggaimjesus

the other day i was stoned, walking around, and i realized this

trees try to reach for the sky,
but are bound to the ground by roots.


anyone realize that?
or is it just me.
figured i'd come here.

heh, just one realisation of the wows of nature. but it's only one perspective too. in the same thing many things can be seen.

are they reaching into the ground too?




the roots come from the seed first.

[chipcago]

I like to think that there isn't anything in this world that isn't nature, or natural. We speak of "nature" as though it's anything that isn't human. Humans are absolutely parts of nature, and are as natural as can be. The clothes on our back are natural, the food we eat is natural, the "fake" boobs we like to flop our dicks around in are natural, the weed we smoke is natural, the homes we live in are natural...

You may scream till your face turns blue that "marijuana is nature, it grows in nature." So is heroin, MDMA, cheese, cowhide, aluminum, gold and every other substance or corporal object on this good green earth. What you may perhaps mean is that marijuana doesn't require any combination of other substances, you can throw a seed in the natural ground and a natural plant comes up assuming the correct natural circumstances are applied to promote the growth of this natural plant.

Well if it isn't natural, how'd it get here? Two things may come together to form something conceived as "unnatural," but how did those two things get here? Things don't just come out of nowhere. Everything starts somewhere, therefore everything is natural, whether through addition of other forms of nature, subtraction of other natural forms, or other mixtures and combinations of these original chemicals and substances.

cheers

[Digit]

yeah, "nature" is a word that when contemplated on can extend far further than something seperate and external to the human made city of concrete and electricity.

one concept suggested by terrence mckenna which i like (makes me chuckle), is that like us humans (pedal life forms) who have created machines to ferry us about (for procreation?), we humans we similarly created by plants to ferry about their seeds. the blurred lines can be more obviously seen below the water line, where many plantlike species exist with more apparant conscious activity, or independant movement.

but be aware, with this extension of the meaning of natural, we would be wise to cautiously observe the distinction between a symbiotic relationship and a parasitic one.