Fifty years after the appearance of the insects, the eco system on earth would collapse, while fifty years after the deletion of human beings from the earth, the life would flourish. This deductive example reveals how we humans are much more dependent on the nature than on ourselves, but nature is on itself only. To the extreme, we are meaningless to the nature, but nature has full meaning to us.

We are ultimately the imitators of the nature, no matter how our science and technology have or will develop. The Chinese medical scientist Tu You You, who won the Nobel Prize recently, shall have launched a debate over a world wide reputation and possible acceptability of Chinese traditional medicine and therapeutics. But that would seem too much since at the first beginning the spokesman of the RoyalSwedishAcademy of Sciences denied that the award to Mrs. Tu meant any extra support to Chinese medicine. He is right in some sense, but in another sense he has lost the truth of the tradition in Chinese medicine. And this tradition is the very core of the philosophy of the ancient Chinese dealing with the nature around them: we are a part of the nature, no more, no less; the Nature has the solution for problems we ever or will meet with, depending on how you are intimate with it and understand it. Chinese ancestors have searched through tens of thousands of plants and animals, screened them by tasting and experiment, and wrote down what they thought useful. This collection of experience is a treasure and inspiration source for our modern biological medicine study whatever advanced technology people will apply.

Imagine that if Artemisia annua and its family had already disappeared fifty years before, in the similar deforesting process as happened in Amazon, Indonesia, and tropical Africa, how long shall we human beings continue to suffer from Malaria? Imagine further if the therapy which has inspired Mrz.Tu was lost before studied in a modern angle of view, how long shall scientists dragged in the darkness and hopelessness? Artemisia annua is only a drop of the millions of plants and animals on the Earth. We could expect the nature will teach and present to us more.

Therefore, take care of our Nature, and the Nature will take care of our future. Look more closely into the Nature and we can go further into our Future. Let’s treasure our resources, leave less footprints, keep the lives flourishing, make the air clean, save water, wood, and of course, our Tungsten.