There is a forest where a white flower blooms for 7 hours and then dies. I wonder if the expression “short but sweet” comes from it because this flower has an incredibly enticing smell and very sweet nectar. How can a flower pollinate if it is alive for only 7 hours? Well, because of a love story. The flower’s sweet smell attracts a species of bat native to that part of the world, who, as they eat the flower, pollinate it. Because of the lack of nutrients in one flower, this bat must eat from hundreds of them, therefore helping many of them reproduce despite their short lifetimes. But deforestation is threatening this love. A smaller forest would mean fewer flowers, which would mean fewer bats. If this relationship is severed, both species will disappear. 

Nature’s equilibrium is balanced because of relations, because of Love. Planet Earth is filled with Love stories. The water of rivers and its banks are in a perpetual dance to make the river itself, to allow for life to grow, and for the water to not stagnate. Tides and oceanic movement are also the fruit of a loving relationship, that between the Moon and the Earth. The consequence is the abundance of marine life that we have spent years studying, admiring and bathing in. The Earth holds us through Love, we are alive because of it.