Rudy Mancke shares a note from a listener about how thinking of nature as a recycling system has changed their view on life.
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RUDY MANCKE:
Hi, this is Rudy Mancke from University of South Carolina for NatureNotes.
Dale Armstrong sent me a nice little email the other day. He said many moons ago he was on a walk with me in Congaree, and remembered me talking about recycling, connections in the natural world, and how when an animal eats something, it changes that something into itself.
And that includes humans, of course. And it changed his perspective a little bit on life. He said it helped and comforted him, and it allowed him to accept transformations like death. It's a part of life. If the recycling system is to work, it has to be that way. And that affected how he lived, and how I live, and it affected the way he accepts his life as it comes to him.
He loves to feed mealworms to eastern bluebirds in his backyard, and for the first time he watched worms change into birds.
