My impact on nature

Because I have created a shrine out in the edgelands i often pause to consider the actual impact i have had on this mini ecosystem. Before I begun my work in creating a shrine what existed at the site before. Well the actual area i cut away was a section from a huge wild stand of twisted and clogging bramble bushes. It had grown tall over the years and all the old shoots had toughened or died and created an inpenetrable mass where the new growth grew in successive layers on top and around. Very little else grew in this zone, the ground under the brambles was a thick layer of old bramble leaf litter...probably home to masses of insects/mice etc but not much sign of any other plantlife. Within weeks of clearing it the changes started to occur.nature made use of the newly created gaps..sunlight and rain and air found room to move in the space and interact with it...now, years on the changes are many and varied. many types of grasses, ferns,flowers,tiny tree seedlings from many varieties, thistles, docks, nettles, all have found space and have moved in. the rosebay willowherb have spread thickly around and up to the borders on one whole side, in fact they have taken over one area that was still bramble covered. The brambles themselves live on..but moved over to the right, in fact there is a whole new lease of life from them now. this year i will be eating loads of blackberries, as there are bramble flowers everywhere. So i have had an impact on nature in this ecosystem...i am no scientific expert but in my opinion and observation I have actually helped create the conditions for new and varied life to enter the area. As i have said before, it is not a vast area that i have altered, just a small clearing...but it proves to me that human interaction with nature can be a positive thing...i can learn many lessons from my shrine..the powers of nature are very evident here...it is an amazing force that we can learn much from.