If you lived to be one thousand years or so <br />Of Nature you would still have much to know <br />For Mother Nature guards her secrets with secrecy <br />And she is complex as that word can be. <br /> <br />My better days in life I now have seen <br />But to Nature's ways one might say I'm still green <br />And though the passing of the years have left me gray <br />I'm still learning about Nature every day. <br /> <br />The ways of Nature beyond me to explain <br />Why do the frogs sing out before the rain? <br />The day is sunny and the sky is clear <br />And yet the frogs tell us that rain is near. <br /> <br />Left to my own devices I would say <br />That tomorrow will be another sunny day <br />But the tiny amphibians hiding in the watery drain <br />Keep telling me of lots and lots of rain. <br /> <br />The migrant waders above the coast line fly <br />I hear them pipng in the evening sky <br />They journey south and then back north to breed <br />And stop off at beaches on their way to feed. <br /> <br />How can they find their way so far south and then back north <br />again? <br />Is a mystery that forever will remain <br />On such renowned scientists have been known to disagree <br />There's far more to Nature than the eyes can see. <br /> <br />There's far more to Nature than we could wish to know <br />And one could live for a thousand years or so <br />And study life on ocean and on land <br />And Nature yet not fully understand.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/there-s-far-more-to-nature/
