Price Charles of the UK is a good example. He is very keen on
climate change and environmental affairs in general. He likes gardening in one of his impressive properties.
Albeit in a much smaller scale, I also do gardening in my some two
hundred square meter property. In the human system I’m the owner paying
property tax to the local government. If people enter it without my permission,
that is trespass. Other living things, however, whether they are butterflies, ants, or
even cats, do that freely.
Bees even try to make a nest in the canopy of the house whenever
they have a chance, so do spiders anywhere. Interestingly, though, after I
started to maintain the property properly, such as removing weeds regularly,
having trees trimmed, and making the entire property reasonably tidy, bees no longer make nests and spiders do so much less than before. They’re
certainly watching and avoid a place where they think there is a high
risk.
I also put the peel of watermelons in the garden to feed the ants.
That is an interesting feeling that I am the queen of the property’s
ecosystem who governs it. I do communicate with the bees, spiders, ants, weeds
and vines to control them. I imagine Prince Charles might have a similar
feeling, and that would certainly let him imagine a larger global environment
and those who live there.
People living in an apartment are away from such a first-hand
ground experience. Most people cannot afford to buy a detached house in the
central part of a big city these days. Owning a property in the
countryside or traveling there incurs some extra expenditure, and there are
many other options to spend money for, such as clothes, theatres, restaurants,
etc.
Developing a sense that one is part of the planet and has fellow
living things in daily life is therefore a luxury, increasing so in urbanized
society.
