More Nature

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron

Warning: you may not want to read this tidbit while eating or before intimacy. From the BBC’s Science Focus magazine website is an article about the human microbiome and its tiny inhabitants that, to them, our body is Nature: “The human microbiome: Everything you need to know about the 39 trillion microbes that call our bodies home. ” What parts of the body are home to the microbial cells? All of it. “The human body provides a broad range of environments, and microbes are capable of living in all of them… Each part of the body is a different type of ecosystem, like a planet with different continents and climates, the inhabitants of which have adapted to the characteristics of each location.”

About the author

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer.[1][2] He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest poets of the United Kingdom. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narratives Don Juan and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.