2.6 CYCLES: A NICHE IN TIME Cyrles are any reeurrrng evenis or phenomena, They have anorher lmplkatmn, whieh rs one ol drversron. A eysle lyou like, an rnrerruprron or eddy rn rhe snalthin: ngussiml iowards eneropy. ll rs ihe speelal provenanee nl lik ro ryele nrarerralr 5o emeienily dues rhrs happen rhal m o lroprral loresi alrnosr .ll oraoerial humerus are in ryeie in ie lorrns ll rs rhrs very cornpler eyelrng rn rhe rrop n whreh opened up so rnany opporruniries lor yreld rhnr thousand) oi speeies have evolved la rahe advanrage ol ihese. ll NICHI‘S are oppornrrurrer rn spaee, CYCLES are opporrurunes m Time la rrrneslon and oorh rogerher give hnrhour lo rnany evenrs and speries Geese eal grass, drresr u, rnouli. produee wasre pmduds, add parasnes. digesrrve enzymes, acids and alkalrs, and deleeaie The yuund reeerves rhe rejerro, rhe sun shores, and rarn nray (an. Tuner, laaeierra, graas roois and iohage walk on huh": and laeees, and moolrse lhern rnro hie ll we Rex-gaunt and en eour—aee surh ryCIL-s, our opponunrrres w oorarr. yrelds rnulnply. Every peasanl lanner who keeps prgeons lns rhey mu do rn rhe Medrrerranean buvdrlsl knows lhrs Irulh, Here, every lhmkmg larrner ourlds hrs own phospluke larrory, as: p eon loh. Earn sueh eyele rs a irrrrove errerrr; drer, eoorcr, seleeoon, season, weaiher, drgesuon, deeonrposulon, arud regeneration diner earh orneu happens Thus, ir rs ihe number of such rydes, great and small, rhar decide rne porenhal lor dlvexsl'y, We should reel ourselves pnvlkged lo be pan ol sueh erernal renewal Jus| oy living we have nehreved nnrrnorialrr —ras grass, grasshoppers. gulls, geese. and oiher people. We are o / the diversrry we erpenenee rn every real sense. II, as physical seiendsrs ossure us, we all eonrarn a lew rnoleeules oi :rnslern, and n me arornre parrreles oi our phyareal body rearh lo ihe nurerrnosl oounds ol ihe universe. lhen we are all de [mm wmponmls oi all llungs. There is nowhere lerr lor us lo go ll we are already everywhere. and lhrs Is, in rrulh, oil we wrll ever have or need. ll we love ourselves ar all, we should respeer all “wings equally, and nor claim any superronry over whai are, in eueer, our erher pans ls she hnnd superror ro rhe eye? The bishop lo lhe goose” The son lo ihe rnorherz Every more ayenl increases in. opoonunlry lor yield Tu increase cycling rslo lnoioaso yield. Feuple are bum up rnoleeule by rnoleeule, (ydlng ihroueh rhernselves lhe rnarerrals n! rheir envrrorr. nrenr: ns arr, sorls, ioods, nunersls, and puhogens Over rirne, people rresie lherr own local “flimsy las do wambi|s and all sedeniory animals): iherr wnsiea, exudae, and rereeu evenrually ereale The very soils m whren rhey garden, caroege in. garbage oul' applies equally ro campulen and people. We gardeners are cansnmly cytlmg ourselves, and by a generaiional parrern or sdrusnnenr beeorne ‘emompallhle‘ wilh our landscape and rhnrale. We are “M rhe end pornr ol evolurion but a srep on lhe way, and pan or a whole sequenee or eyelea N is line number n! sueh dqlnmllve—regennalxve eyeles. unhnowairle lo us, whreh dererrnrne rhe nurnoer ol opporrunrrres rn rhe syriern. and us porenlral lo (hinge, rnulale, drversrly. and reinlegraie, Nor only can we never cross rhe sum! river rwree, we ran never see rhe same view twlcz, nor knuw rhe sarne sysrern rwioe Every eyrle rs a new oppommily ln narure, n is our right to die and rnnke way lor our suceessors, who are ourselves reexpressed m dinerenl lorrns h rs our mlerarree 0! (he prohiersoon oi hie whreh perrnils sueh eyeles. Deprived sysrenrs, |ik¢ rhore blasled by binaries. lore rnosr or all opporiunny lo rranseend iherr prior srale, and lhe egg oilile is broken, dzgmdzs, and asiumes a lower porenrral Trriaal peoples are very rnueh aware ol. and Tied lo, their sorl and landscapes, so rhnr rherr rnenial and physrral healrh depend on lhese rres oern, mums rorned 11w resr or us have sullered lorohle, hrsioric drsloearrons lmm home sires, and rrrany no longer hnow where horne rs. although ihere are new and ronserous moves ro Rmhabn rhe eanh and re idenrily walh a hiandml as “horne: Travel hsell earrses seress and mnxbxdlly. Travellers horh curry and aroune Pa|hngens and spread rhern lo orher culmm New serrlers bring new speeres, new lrrnernoles, and new conmpts. Loeal sysierns haye lo readjusi, or larl These proresres are anihguus |o rhe disruroanee ol old eeosyslerns by new eeoloerenl or ehnrahe lorees The posrernvasron evoluoon ronlarns pan of lhe old and pan oi me new syslenr, so xi resell a new aesernoly wrrh new porenoals. Too alien, however we have dealroyed very produenve loeal eeologies, only lo replare ihern wrrh energyeeonsurnrns "imwuvemenls' oi our own making We have orsunred the role oi lhe ereaior, and dshvyzd live rrearrorn lo do Cycling of nun-renrs \s rononuous rn ihe iropres, lrui ls inlerrupied wherever droughr, mild, or low nurrrenr smus reducer rhe "base uppoflumly", iusr as rhe killing oi hsh sroels reduees ihe yreld Sueh eyeles are slowed or even slapped by ehororre [actors or lay our rnrederenee, cycles in name are lefiVsmn mules any lrorn enimpic sods—ill. mil cycles nuimnls—qnvrnp opoonunmus lorynld, and mus upponunlilss ior spec-310 occupy ivno "idles, Cycles, like camels, have schedules or nnres lo oeeur Some are lrequenr snd obvmul like day and nighr, orhers loneeieran lilre sunspoi eyeles Bum shorr and long cycles ore used in phenmnznologlul reehoning by aborigines, who use eyele—indienrors as none nups.