Entry 25: Natural Cycle

Romantic poets looked to nature for lessons - lessons that we too can learn by looking around us. One of the ever-present lessons of nature is the organic cycle of birth, growth, death, and rebirth. Think of some ways that nature reminds us of this recurring cycle. Do you find this aspect of nature disturbing or comforting? Explain.

• Nature has a lot of cycles that remind us of the organic cycles of birth, growth, death, and rebirth. For example, the changing of the seasons - spring, summer, autumn, and winter, as well as organisms' living continuous cycle of birth, growth, death, and rebirth. I believe that I find this aspect both comforting and also interesting. It is comforting because we know that life will continue to go on, instead of just stopping and ending. This is a very interesting phenomenon as well. Why has Earth come to its mechanisms in the present day? This is a very mystery that present day human beings will never find out. Another mystery is why is it cycles? Why is it not a linear line that ends after a while? Does the continuing of the cycles benefit organisms in any way? What are the advantages? I am actually very interested in this topic. However, I would not want to be in a job to search for the answers, because it would be an useless (at least in my opinion) attempt. Why, you ask? Because we have not concrete evidence since it has been so long. If I were given the chance to go back to the past and see exactly what happened, I would definitely take the chance.