The Trouble Is

I wanted to share with you a passage from Silent Spring.  In the margin by this text I wrote "Love," because love it I do!

"The trouble is that we are seldom aware of the protection afforded by natural enemies until it fails.  Most of us walk unseeing through the world, unaware alike of its beauties, its wonders, and the strange and sometimes terrible intensity of the lives that are being lived about us.  So it is that the activities of the insect predators and parasites are known to few.  Perhaps we may have noticed an oddly shaped insect of ferocious mien on a bush in the garden and been dimly aware that the praying mantis lives at the expense of other insects.  But we see with understanding eye only if we have walked in the garden at night stealthily creeping upon her prey.  Then we sense something of the drama of the hunter and the hunted.  Then we begin to feel something of that relentlessly pressing force by which nature controls her own.”  –Rachel Carson in “Nature Fights Back” in Silent Spring 1962