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To the Earth,

For many years I had been fortunate to work with insects. They are some of the most beautiful creatures on earth. They are often so tiny that nature hides them. But I learned about the smallest of them through the lens of a microscope. I marvel that they can be so beautiful and yet so few people get to see them! What a privilege it was to work with them – years that felt more like playing than working …

And what strange a process that happened here on earth – the evolution of such diversity! And so extraordinarily intricate!

How is it then that we are letting these incredible life forms down? Selfishly for thousands of years we humans only saw our own importance and mastery. Now we have to wake up and at last see their importance and realise that their lives are also ours – humans cannot live without this diversity in nature.

Ottilie Neser