Nature Thrives in Multiplicity

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the concept of “survival of the fittest”.

If you sit with the trees, you can see that each plant has its own unique take on its species. Each pecan tree completely unique unto itself. Adapting to the sunlight it gets, moving with the wind and the storms, winding around fences, roots heaving up concrete, thriving in its own way. So actually, adaptation and multiplicity are the key to success in nature. With genetic range, a species survives a sudden invasion of beetles - some will die but some will survive with their unique dna resistance. Thus the multiplicity of genetic variation is actually the foundation of Nature’s survival.

Not some ideal of “the best”.

It’s actually based on “the many”.

And despite patriarchy and white supremacy imposing dominance values onto nature, our survival is actually contingent on having the wide viewpoints of “the many” so that we can react to crises.

Change is here.

Thrive in difference.