Story of a butterfly

This is from a song by Kinobe called Bayou
Barrataria

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I heard a great story once, to get across the point that the Earth really is alive.

If you were to interview a butterfly, standing on the branch of a Cicoria tree.

Now a butterfly only lives for a few days but a Cicoria tree can live for over a thousand years.

If you were to ask the butterfly if you perceived the object on which they were standing as being alive the butterfly would say

“Of course not, I have been here all my life,” which is all of five days “and the tree hasn’t done a thing.”

Well it is the same problem with the human being. If you were to ask a person, perhaps one that has lived for over a hundred years, if they perceive the Earth, which is really 5 billion years old, as being alive they’d say;

“Of course not, I have been here my whole life and it hasn’t done a thing.”

The Earth really is alive.