We live in an age where competition, domination and one-upmanship are portrayed as the crucial elements for survival. Where power and influence both subtle and glaring, are thought primarily necessary for one’s deepest fulfillment and gratification. But the ant and the caterpillar, like the Honey guide and the Badger or the Hermit crab and the Sea anemone, are beacons for a different kind of community. A community where relating and relationship, synergy and symbiosis and being there for one another, are regarded above everything else.
An excerpt from a chapter on the the relation between ants and the blue gram butterfly caterpillar. Yuvan makes such insightful observations of the natural world and captures it in his beautiful words. Time and again proves that so much can be learnt from just observing nature.
