Recently we bought a Venus Fly Trap.
And it’s safe to say, I’m transfixed.
These plants shouldn’t exist. They’re literally bonkers.
A plant that eats the living. EATS. THE. LIVING.
It’s the sort of thing you’d expect to come from the mind of a z-grade movie writer, not a bloody gardening shop.
But here it is, living in our house and trapping flies like a serial killer.
Which reveals a truth about nature we often forget.
You see when marketers talk about nature, they tend to position it as calm … fragile … innocent. A gentle place where humanity can be restored by its peaceful resonance.
But as the Venus Fly Trap shows, nature is actually the original hard bastard.
Of course it should be obvious …
She’s lived sustainably for billions of years.
Survived dinosaurs, meteors and nuclear bombs,
Found ways to evolve regardless of environment or climate.
Created an eco-system far more impressive than anything DHL or Amazon can muster.
Sustained life for longer than all mothers put together.
Kept the planet breathing despite our best attempts to choke and burn her.
Developed an operating system light years ahead of anything Apple could come up with.
Knows more about life than every scientist, doctor and self-help guru in history.
Nature isn’t gentle. She’s as fierce as a tiger with a set of nunchucks and a bazooka.
Which begs the question …
Why the hell do all these brands keep flogging ‘nature’ as passive when she created things like the Venus Fly Trap?
It just goes to show they don’t even understand their subject matter, let alone their audience.
Thanks VFT. You’re nails.