Nature fights back
Posted by
jan oskar hansen
Nature Fights Back
The mountain slope looked like a green blanketthrown over the back
of a chair near an open window, sunlight on wool. Thorny bushes
protected the slope from humans, foxes, rabbits, the hunter and the
hunted, kept nature’s fine balance no need for the fox to seek human
habitat in search for food. That is, till an access road was built
that made it possible for four wheel drives to reach the top. Now
elderly men, with yellow teeth and beer bellies came, they spoke
tough, laughed when they missed and hit a dog hunted rabbits to near
extinction; foxes too they hunted but with less success. In the
valley dogs barked in the night and chickens where killed en mass
till a cry went up: eradicate the fox it’s a pest and is stealing our
food…Poison, traps and shotguns and when the fox was almost
eradicated, the landscape was over-round by rats which grew as big as
rabbits, but had evil in their hearts and a deep contempt for man
which they felt were brothers that had forsaken them and brought
pestilence to bear.The humans who survived fled, now the fox came
back killed and chased rats which fled like man and set up home in
cities sewers. The rabbit timidly arrived and natures was again in
perfect harmony
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