Compassion are we born with it?

Each time I am called to a site for an estimate I have compassion for the environment.  I often wonder if the environment could talk what would it say to me.  I hope it would be good things.

Since as a small child learning about phosphates in laundry detergent to now as an adult learning about glyphosates I have to have compassion for the environment.  Some people would say that is silly thinking or call me a tree hugger.  Either way, I’m responsible for my environment.

We are born with compassion.  If you watch a young child and their interactions with each other or with small animals you can see the light in their eyes, that light of compassion for another human or animal.  I take it one step further and say we must have compassion for the environment.

Here I go aging myself.

As a child there was a commercial of an Indian riding the prairie and he comes to the edge and all of a sudden the scene changes he is looking out over a city and it is filled with trash everywhere as in a landfill.  The Indian sitting on that horse was so majestic and had compassion for his environment and then you see what the next generation has done.  A very sad state of affairs.  The final scene of the commercial was the Indian crying for the environment.  That is compassion.

I was called for an estimate for the goats and in the conversation I mentioned I was a Master Gardner.  The client was so happy to ask me about his roses.  One of his roses looked like it was dying it was one of two things.  Either he had developed the disease rose rosette or that rose bush had been sprayed by glyphosates.  He assured me he didn’t use such a thing.  That’s what it looks like to me.  I told him to prune the rose bush back but to put the trimmings in a trash bag and seal it up and take to the landfill.  I said give the bush a few weeks and see what happens.  Presto!  The bush started putting out new shoots.  I knew then it wasn’t rose rosette.  Come to find out his neighbor had been spraying his yard with glyphosates and the drift lifted to his yard.

I was mad for that client.

Where is the compassion for your neighbor and the environment.  We must extend beyond the end of our noses and realize we control what is happening in our yards.  If we spray, it is lifted to everything around us.  Don’t let anyone tell you spraying doesn’t travel.

Here is the definition of compassion from the dictionary:

Sympathetic concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.  To me that includes the environment and how we treat it.  If we don’t have compassion for the environment our neighbors suffer!  A synonym for compassion is KINDNESS.  Think about what we are doing not showing kindness towards each other and our environment when we continue to think it is okay to spray herbicides.