A new life brings the promise of a new beginning. In the natural world, when a young creature takes its first independent steps and learns its first lessons, it enters a world full of danger. Not all will survive – that’s the sometimes harsh, but unending circle of life.
The young elephant calf in Africa turns to the grandmother of the herd - the matriarch - to learn from generations of inherited wisdom. In Germany, the shimmering banded demoiselles skim over the waterways in search of a mate, though some female dragonflies will pay for the instinct to pass on their genes with their lives. Mother Nature may seem cruel, but for centuries, the circle of life has revolved to balance losses and bring renewal - until humans disrupted it. Yet, every new generation brings with it a stronger will to mend the circle and heal our planet.
