Finding in nature what makes us think of love, friendship, of caring tells us what we wish to see in ourselves. It tells us what we hope to get from others. These reflections of our humanity in nature endorse what we value. The parent birds together feeding their chicks or preening each other, flowers posed in a seemingly loving embrace, even insects in coitus, all catch our eye and sometimes our hearts.
Just as in love and friendship, nature offers a range of developmental stages each with rewards as well as losses. Flowers start out as seeds of hope, kernels of possibilities. Seed, germination, growth, reproduction, pollination, and seed spreading - each displays a unique part of life.
The aspects of our love are as varied and many as the reflections of love we can find in nature.
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