We are really stupid human beings in front of plants.

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Author: Bai Yuyan/Wu Keying

Since the glorious history of agricultural revolution and industrial revolution, human beings have always placed themselves in the leading position in the world, breaking through the atmosphere and colonizing the whole universe, as if this were the great ambition of all mankind.

But have humans really tamed the world? Actually, it is not.

Behind our self-thought "anthropocentrism", nature always tames us to obey.

The violent idea that man can conquer nature may be just a joke.

When we think we can decide.

A forest, a species.

Even the rise and fall of the whole nature.

May have overlooked that nature has its own will.

And the great vitality beyond our cognition.

Don't wait for nature to bite you.

To think about this blue planet

Give more respect and awe.

Evolution itself is a natural mill, and human desire is only a part of many grains.

-Pollan