The One-Straw Revolution - Multiworld India

nature are infants. They see without thinking, straight and clear. If eventhe names of plants are known, a mandarin orange tree of the citrusfamily, a pine of the pine family, nature is not seen in its true form.An object seen in isolation from the whole is not the real thing.Specialists in various fields gather together and observe a stalk ofrice. The insect disease specialist sees only insect damage, the specialistin plant nutrition considers only the plant's vigor. This is unavoidable asthings are now.As an example, I told the gentleman from the research station whenhe was investigating the relation between rice leaf-hoppers and spiders inmy fields, "Professor, since you are researching spiders, you areinterested in only one among the many natural predators of theleaf-hopper. This year spiders appeared in great numbers, but last year itwas toads. Before that, it was frogs that predominated. There arecountless variations."26