Sustains

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

A shoot grows from a seed. A shoot transforms to a sapling, a sapling to a tree. The root sustains the tree.

Blessed are You, oh Lord, Who sustains everything.

Mankind must preserve the environmental ecosystem that sustains it.

The Rio Grande sustains the park. The river starts high up in the Rocky Mountains. Melting mountain snow is its main source. It travels more than 3,000 kilometers on its way to the Gulf of Mexico.

The human species is an irresponsible and unrepentant predator of the planet that sustains it.