With the welcome arrival of the Spring season, many nature-loving Americans have resumed their communal walks in the woodlands to worship its perennial arousal, notably with its resident tenants, the latter, aroused from their seasonal somnambulance. Solicitous caution is universally exercised to avert disturbance of the reawakening fauna and flora, reestablishing themselves in their customary venue, the latter, systemically suitable for growth and reproduction.
Experienced hikers are empirically familiar with the nature-chosen situs of each; in the case of flora, the result of requisite sunlight, water, and appropriate soil, and fauna, the availability of food and shelter from the elements of foul weather andl predators. Each has its suitably chosen domicile (“domus”). The seasonal human observer is respectful of the choice of venue (instinctive or empirical) and takes pains to observe, not alter, or disturb the safe, fecund site. As a matter of moral human consideration, any inappropriate or thoughtless misdemeanor would predictably result in uniform censure.
The ability of conscious choice of a suitable domicile (“domus”) is a planetary concomitant of the good fortune to be born a homo sapiens, and thereby, to acquire the franchise to courageously alter the dangerous or infertile environment of the place of birth; in the aspiration of a more empirically acceptable existence. Such humanistic aspirations are analogously relatable to the desire for a naturally benevolent ambience, opportunistically found in the successful endurance of natural life on the Planet, animal and vegetal. Beneficial survival and growth are the irrefutably universal duties and challenges of all life on the green planet.
In this moral ambience, we cannot begin to understand the prevalent toxic atavism and natural impropriety of xenophobia. The latter ignorantly conflates the thematic change of domus from the insidious and threatening to the freedom accorded private American citizens (N.B.: themselves, uniformly descended from immigrants or their progeny).
All those who would morally shrink from the possibility of stepping on a Springtime nest of eggs or disturbing a cache of fuzzy, newly born chipmunks should welcome, not oppose, new immigration. It might usefully be noted that the infinitive of the word connotes a verbal and not adjectival reference.
-p.
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