•1 Routine is life supporting because without the routines of the sun and earth there would be no life.
•2 The birds and the bees have a routine and also variability and freedom of action within that routine.
•3 The routines of nature are so precise that a variation in them can cause the extermination of an entire species.
•4 Having a routine is one way to learn self-discipline and to make sure some important things that depend upon repetition for development always get done.
•5 Ecology concerns can be understood as being about how man’s greed interferes with the routines of nature and thereby wreaks havoc on the earth and its species.