Nature’s Little Rule Book

http://www.awok.org/natures-little-rule-book/

Hello, dearies, this is Mother Nature. I’m speaking up here because you humans seem to have an awful lot of difficulty understanding and living in accord with the rules of life on Earth, so I thought I’d lay it all out for you in a very simple and direct form. This is very important, so please pay close attention.

Rule No. 1 - Life on Earth is a web, NOT a pyramid.

Rule No. 2 - The evolution of life on Earth has NO inherent direction or “purpose” that directs it to develop supposedly “higher” forms of life.

Rule No. 3 - Life on Earth is infinitely subtle, complex and interrelated.

Rule No. 4 - Death is an essential part of life on Earth.

Rule No. 5 - Variety - lots of it - is the spice of life.

Rule No. 6 - Assuming stable rates of predation and other causes of death, a species’ population inevitably increases as its food supply increases.

Rule No. 7 - You are allowed to compete with other species for food, but not to wage war on them.

Rule No. 8 - Earth’s ecosystems are NOT evolutionarily designed to withstand a species that goes gallivanting all around the world and willy-nilly introducing species from one place to another.

Rule No. 9 - It’s very easy to determine what a sustainable way of human life looks like - just look around you.

Rule No. 10 - There is much more to life than meets the human eye.