complex relations..

There comes many a times when things we initiate don’t commence or inadvertently fail to go the way we intend. In such times we would often be tempted to attribute the failed initiation or outcome to matters of chance.

When a forest is cut down the new growth of vegetation that springs up could sometimes differ from its surroundings whereas in contrast places of old ruins which must have been formerly cleared of trees, the ruins display diversity akin to the surrounding forest. The vegetation whether akin or different must be the outcome of a struggle between the several kind of trees/plants each annually scattering its seeds by the thousand; the war between insect and insects, birds and beasts of prey — all striving, all feeding on each other, or on the trees their seeds and seedlings, or on other plants which first clothed the ground. The growth of vegetation would be a result of these various interactions.

Humblebees alone visit red clover flower, as other insects cannot reach the nectar and the bee alone seems to have sufficient weight to depress the petals of the clover. Hence we may infer if the whole genus of humble-bees became extinct, the red clover would become very rare, or wholly disappear. The number of humblebees in any place depends in a great measure upon the number of field mice, which destroy their combs and nests. The number of mice is largely dependent on the number of cats or predatory birds. Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a place might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that place.

Perhaps, there is an entire series of interactions, interrelations and interconnections that coalesce to produce an outcome.