This reminds me of a beautiful scene from Studio Ghibli’s Only Yesterday.

Taeko is looking out over the lush Japanese countryside, marveling at the beauty of nature. The rolling hills, the trees, the fields stretching into the distance. She’s captivated by it all, much like the sentiment in this post. The Earth just keeps giving us these wonderful things, as though it’s the most ordinary thing in the world.

But Toshio, a young farmer, gently offers her another perspective. He explains that much of the landscape she’s admiring isn’t untouched nature at all. Generations of people have planted those trees, cultivated those fields, and shaped the countryside through their care and labor.

I love that moment because neither of them is wrong. Taeko sees the wonder of what the Earth gives us, while Toshio sees the generations of human hands that have helped nurture it.

There’s something deeply romantic about that relationship. Humanity isn’t separate from nature. We’re part of it. And some of the most beautiful things in this world are what we’ve created together.

When I was a kid an area of woods near my house was logged, and became a clearing, which after a few years became completely full of raspberry bushes, there were so many raspberries you could spend hours there just eating them and there were always more. Was pretty cool, and it was something that just happened, nobody planted them except bears probably.

at first I thought they meant cucumbers, trees, grass, and cherries were all somehow types of raspberry

It comes out of the ground!

https://youtu.be/_pDTiFkXgEE

All goes to crab.

It made nukes too