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THE RUMINATING COW AND THE SPRING RAIN.
The cow does not only give milk, meat, and harmful microbes.
Life on the planet is a complex affair. Earth is a place where all living things are interrelated.
All inhabit complex ecosystems.
Life’s secret links rain with grass and spring weeds. It is also associated with cows, humans, genes, and intestinal bacteria. It is one more wonder of nature.
Allegoria della primavera.
Do you remember the song Have You Ever Seeing The Rain, by the group Creedence Clearwater Revival (1970)? I do. I am actually listening to it right now on Spotify. And the rain, too. It is raining.
The spring rains have dressed the countryside with an infinite amalgam of colors. I am writing from Extremadura (Southwest of Spain). It is like a field office of paradise. And now, it looks as if the hand of the best Van Gogh had intervened in executing one of his beautiful paintings. Excursus: I am sorry, Mr. Sandro Botticelli. I love your wonderful Spring (in the original Italian: Allegoria della Primavera). Yet, I am talking about nature, and there are no better paintings…
