It is amazing all the incredible moments that we miss from the nature not paying attention. Nowadays, people usually ignore what is around them with so many distractions that we have.
The world is full of moments that could be unique and it doesn't have to be in the jungle or a paradise place, you can find any of them right next to you while you are walking, but for the you would have to pay an special attention.
Since I was a child I've been amazed with insects, so tiny and perfect and the same time, their behavior is what I'm most keen.
I use to expend hours and hours looking at an ant farm, do you know what they do if you take one kill it and after put it again? First of all they would get so nervous, but after they would just take the death ant and put it inside of the farm as food. How the bigger ones give orders to the little one with simply movements, or even their strength. It's usually so fun then you put some seeds around them and you see how they change their last orders to the new one, go for them; or they can even get scared and start to runway to everywhere.
One of the most important things that learn from an ant farm is the society structure that they have, a perfect team work. and you also lear that in a community the priority is the group and if one have to die for the save of the rest it would die.
What about spiders?
Most of people is scared of them, but for me they are one of the most incredible insects in the world. The way of building their cobweb is like and art, and even better when the hunt. Here you have two videos that recorded by myself of two spiders hunting.
I really thing the beauty is in the small things, and in the case talking about insects, the fear makes people blinds sometimes. I could prove this with my friends, I took them to take some grasshoppers, at first the where so scared but after a while talking to them explaining them that nothing happen, the realized how beautiful can be a grasshopper's skin because of the camouflage. After all, the recognize that they regret themselves to learn new thing being afraid.
Nature is understood in so many different ways depending where we born, our education, our lifestyle, even the weather can change our perception of nature. From my point of view, this is closely related with our relation with the Mother Earth.
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I come from a city called Almeria in South of Spain, we could considered it as a town. It has a really dry weather almost desert like. So talking about feelings, if you tell me to close my eyes and the about nature the colors of the plants would be yellow and brown, the types of animals would be from that environment. In difference with a person from the north, for example. i pretty sure that in the image of natures there is green everywhere.
The same happens if you life at the city, I think this lifestyle is quite selfish because usually these type of people have a "natural" environment in there mind where everything is around buildings and artificial things. When they think about nature they quite consider it as an exotic thing apart from the natural world. But is important to say that not everybody is the same, this is a general viewing.
Finally, no matter how do we understand it, everybody agree saying that their natural place is peaceful in a way or another. Nature is something that belong to us and we belong to it.
For me, nature would be the place where every living thing life in equilibrium with the rest, this doesn't mean in peace. Also, you are in nature when everything has been created and grow without any type of human or artificial intervention, so the whole development of it has been by itself.
The course Natural World let you wait for a moment and think with patient things that you don't usually realize and you have everyday; the different surroundings when we move from a place to other one, how do you feel with it, the different ways of livings of people and even animal. A mixture between the nowadays society with the natural environment where we leave.
This blog would be a reflection of my own experiences and my point of view of the world that is around me and how each one understand it in his/her own way. Going through the topics from lectures we could have different opinions and also experiences.
Hope you like it.
