I walked through the woods this cold March morning in search of new life remerging in Spring. It may seem odd, but I found it in the most inert of Earth substances – stones.  Along the southern slope the surface rocks and bedrock outcroppings were shedding their brownish-gray winter coats and donning their pale green springtime frocks. The stones were teeming with populations of bacteria, algae, and lichen.  These miniscule populations are not mere surface decorations. They are marauders, attacking these invincible stones with an insistence that may not even be matched by the force of jackhammers, dynamite, and atomic explosions.  

Microorganisms that colonize the surfaces of stone mine and sort the mineral wealth that is then banked in the living tissues of organisms that eat vegetables. It is transferred to the organisms that eat the vegetables and to those that eat the vegetarians.

Let us celebrate Spring and the renewal of life by honoring stone’s role in infusing life with life.

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