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Okay, you can thank me for bringing spring. I’m sure that invoking all those images of spring in my last column did the trick, because two days after I sent my column in, the spring peepers were in full chorus on the farm.
As I write this, it’s officially spring (on the calendar). The roar I hear on the farm is the rush of spring melt joining with the recent rain. And the engorged creeks all but drown out the traffic noises from Route 522.
This morning, coming back from my daily dawn walk with my dog, I noticed that the farm lane was covered with earthworms. The thawing ground, combined With saturation from recent snow melt and rains, had driven the little guys to the surface.
My first thought was, I should collect these guys and throw them in my garden. That got me thinking about the human propensity for viewing nature as only raw materials designed to fill our needs.
Human beings have long looked at other species as things to be conquered, eradicated or used for their own purposes, the choice depending on what was perceived best for their species at the time. Wild cattle were domesticated; wild wolves killed to the point of extinction.
The Old Testament has often been interpreted as saying humans should have “dominion over” other species which are given their value by being created by God for the use of mankind.
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