Long, long time ago, somewhere in an Earth-like planet in the deep Cosmos, a stone told another stone.- Look at all those queer things growing almost everywhere, how they take the inert minerals from the soil and in almost complete silence and with no great effort change into magnificent flowers that break the monotony and embellish the landscape. We must think that they are better beings than we are, something like super-stones

A flower told another flower.- See all those strange things, flying, jumping or crawling everywhere. They come from who knows where and then go to mysterious places and spread our pollen in all directions after drinking our nectar, often increasing our numbers and improving our appearances. No doubt these little things are better than we are, something akin to super-flowers.

A bee told another bee.- Wow!! Just look at those funny beings screaming like mad and jumping from branch to branch, often breaking and tearing to pieces our beehives, eating our honey and ruining months of very hard work. They are very agile and strong, better than we are, of course. Super-bees indeed.

A monkey told another monkey.- Be careful, very careful!! See those big ape-like two-legged creatures, how they come and go carrying strange artifacts that can hurt and kill us any time they please, and no other jungle member can do anything about it and stop them. We must learn to live with the fact that they are super-monkeys.

A primitive man told another one.- My, oh my!! How terrible are those storms, lightening and earthquakes, that can destroy almost everything that we know off. Whoever is causing them must be much better and stronger than we are, some kind of super-man.

A modern man told another one.- It is magnificent and overwhelming the way those electrons, photons and queer quantic particles can behave as such or like waves and at times they seem to exist in two different places simultaneously. Whoever designed such enigmatic mechanisms must be a much higher being, something next to a super-intelligence, a superior existence.

A superior being told another one.- Please, just take a fast look at what has been happening in our dear Earth, with all those people craving to decipher the whole Universe and take over the origins, control and destiny of Life, even before, much before they can learn to live with each other and enjoy what has already been provided in excess. How deceived, blind and terribly sad they seem to be. Hurry, let us go to some other distant place less dangerous and depressive. Come, move as fast as you can!! I do not care to witness the end of it all!!

In another Earth-like planet, deep in the Cosmos, a stone tells another stone.- Oh dear, dear, dear!! I think we are lost my friend!! Really lost!! Early this morning, I saw something falling nearby coming from that decadent and polluted planet called Earth-one!!

Note.-Obviously, rocks, flowers, bees, etc., did not express themselves in man-built languages. They used their own rock-language, flower-language, bee-language, and so on. Hence some fine qualities may have been lost in the translation, but the main idea has been well kept.

Dr. Mario López-Llera M.

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