After reading an article in National Geographic at Easter I have been in awe. The article tells of a young leopards life as it grows up.
When it gets a bit older it kills a baboon, then discovering a baby baboon clinging to the corpse crying. The leopard eats the adult and takes the baby high into a tree where it grooms it, takes it higher when it cries and even goes to sleep with it.
If this doesn't show compassion on Earth I don't know what does. I'm truly in awe that a creature designed for killing and eating other creatures would take responsibility of something in that way. I can't describe it!
Another thing in nature I totally respect is commitment. From my bedroom on Ffridd I can see a building with a Herring Gull's nest on. One of the parents is on the nest permanently and the other is never far away - you don't go long without seeing them return. It's not just birds and nests its other stuff too - two animals who recognise each other and their role no matter what - yesterday it was blowing a gale and pouring it down with rain but that gull is still sitting there.
There are shed loads of other things I am amazed and inspired by - how the trees know when to wake up, the intricacies of flowers, flight, even the human hand, although ugly is fully functional - how many other creatures have the dexterity in their fingers to fold sheets, send a text and other daily things we really don't realise we're doing.
Nature is truly beautiful when you get down to it and I really wish more people would see it for how amazing it really is.
