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About Web of Life

Dr. W. D. Billings, a professor of Life Sciences, researched botanical environments and illustrated his holistic theory with an intricate line drawing. He modeled the complex, interdependent relationships that foster life and showed how all parts of the web of life are deeply entwined and work together to create functioning ecosystems. Ecosystems consist of interdependent communities of living plants and creatures with their supportive physical environments. All life on our planet, including humans, is sustained through complex relationships with our ecosystems. We are dependent on the natural world for our survival, and our personal actions and inactions affect our planet’s health, and then in turn, our own. This poem’s illustration includes part of Dr. Billings’s circular scientific illustration, and several key forces making all life possible — the sun, pollen, water, and the atmosphere.