In Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer writes of the reciprocal nature of gift. The Earth gifts us with plants and we gift the Earth the care and attention with which those plants thrive. The same is true for other living beings including insects.
I was gifted a bee hotel. For several years there were no guests. Then the bee hotel was blown down in a storm so temporarily I placed it in a nearby bench. The following summer every room in the hotel was occupied, each bamboo tube sealed with a paste of soil or brick dust. And every year since then red mason bees have made a beeline for the hotel.
It seems that rewilding our environment can involve positive intervention – reciprocating nature’s gift.
The Green Tau 