A couple of months ago, a large patch of wasteland that I pass when I go to a small post office was cleared of all vegetation, bar a few large mature trees.
I was devastated. Everything gone. Nothing but bare earth remained. I stopped a passer-by and he had no clue as to what was going to happen there. "There used to be a building here about 10 years ago," he said. And I felt sad at the thought that this formerly large patch of green might be built on again.
A fair few weeks later, when I had to go to the post office again, I was amazed. The ground was covered with green again and not much later after that, the plants were as high as they had been before. The power of nature.
I recently read that, if left alone, a cleared patch of the Amazon jungle could return to its former condition in just 20 years. You might think that 20 years is a long time, but geologically speaking, it's a blink of an eye.
That bit of barren earth near the post office proves this. Nature will prevail. Given time and if left in peace.
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