It's been a while, but with all that has been going on, I haven't stopped discovering--you know, reading, observing, and getting ideas. I discovered this post in my drafts from April 13, 2009. Now I am going to finish up my thoughts after reading the book Flowers: How They Changed the World by William C. Burger.
My budding interest in flowers drew me to this book I found at a library book sale.
Here is something to think about: There are just over 260,000 known species of flowering plants yet only 25 of them provide us humans with 90% of our vegetarian energy.
America(ns) spend upwards of $20 billion a year to preserve nature by planting and maintaining flowers and plants. Sports attendance and movies combined do not even come up to this number.
Invasive species through even walking are killing...invasive species are not just plants, but think critters too. Air-travel, trade, cars, etc. have brought almost invisible seeds or spores from plants along. The amazing thing about the might of such a tiny thing is that they can withstand conditions that span the extremes and manage to become life.
Through watching flowers/flowering plants that produce fruits, the apes have learned how to walk to get food. Through evolution, this has caused us to walk (and you can believe in both Christianity and evolution, by the way).
Finally, though I had to erase several notes I made because I would need to go back to a copy of the book for them, there is a hypothesis to further explore called the Gaia hypothesis. In short, this theory suggests that the earth has a global metabolism in which both the inorganic and organic components of earth work to create balance for survival. This would be disputable based on some of the content of other books I read, such as The Secret Life of Plants, but the Gaia hypothesis is an interesting theory.
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