Monday, October 13, 2008

Nature's Beauty


We all enjoy the colors of autumn leaves. Did you ever wonder how and why a fall leaf changes color? Why a maple leaf turns bright red? Where do the yellows and oranges come from?
During winter, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis. The trees will rest, and live off the food they stored during the summer. They begin to shut down their food-making factories. The green chlorophyll disappears from the leaves. As the bright green fades away, we begin to see yellow and orange colors. Small amounts of these colors have been in the leaves all along. We just can't see them in the summer, because they are covered up by the green chlorophyll.
Like human nature has shades to it nature outside goes through the same kind of transformation. We appreciate nature!!!

Sunlight and the cool nights of autumn cause the leaves turn this glucose into a red color. The brown color of trees like oaks is made from wastes left in the leaves.It sounds like how we humans react and overreact to situations around us. We are thrilled, happy and satisfied at one thing while we are irritated, irrational and contemptuous about some others.

We see beauty in nature, yet we complain about humans. I read somewhere "The universe is perfect. Nature is perfect. Yet we complain that human nature is imperfect. How can that be?"

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