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I was thinking on that again
just a couple of weeks ago.

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Drum and Diana Hadley
and my wife, Masa, and I

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went down the
peninsula to La Paz.

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Drove down and sitting
there one afternoon

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looking out over the desert and
thinking about the food chains,

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I realized the simple truth that
all food, all eating, all life

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is made possible by an
excess of sexuality.

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By more seeds than
are necessary.

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By more young being
born than are necessary,

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like millions of cod and
Herring fry are born.

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And that is what
starts the whole food

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chain for all the others.

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And excess is born
of every species

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which allows the others
to eat-- it's fantastic.

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"Kyoto, Born in Spring Song."

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There's an old Japanese
folktale about an elderly couple

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that had never been
able to have a baby.

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And one day the old man was
out cutting bamboo and split

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open a big bamboo and found
a little tiny baby girl

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about the size of a
peach inside the bamboo.

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And so they took her
home and raised her.

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[LAUGHTER]

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They were very happy.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And there are other
folktale motifs like that

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especially in Asia.

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Beautiful little children
found in melons, in bamboo.

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In a strangely glowing warbler
egg, a perfect baby girl.

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Baby, baby, tiny
precious mice and worms.

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Great majesty of Dharma turning,
great dance of Vadra power.

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Lizard baby by the
fern, centipede baby

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scrambling toward the wall.

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Cat baby left to
mew for milk alone.

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Mouse baby too afraid to run.

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Oh sing born in spring.

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The weavers swallows
babies in Nishijin, nests

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below the eaves.

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Glinting mother's wings
swoop to the sound of loons.

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And three fat babies with three
human mothers every morning

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doing laundry.

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Good morning, how's your baby.

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Tomoharu, Itsuko, and Kenji.

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Mouse begin again.

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Bushmen are laughing
at the coyote tricking

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that made us think machines.

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Wild babies in the ferns
and plums and weeds.

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