Have y'all ever thought that we oldsters possibly lived in the best of times ever to happen?
It isn't exactly better now...
I remember seeing actual clouds of butterflies, coming down to drink from puddles after a rain...
...and lots and lots more birds!
When they killed the bugs, they killed the bird food!
Maybe the reason we are oldsters now is because our water did not have complicated toxic chemicals in it...although it might have had some sand or earth in it.
...and our food wasn't sprayed with chemicals, we just cut the bug or bird bites out...an apple with a worm in it? We ate some of the good part, or put it in a pie and threw the rest away.
I washed my hair from the water in our rain barrel because it was soft, and drank it too,
thinking water from the sky was the cleanest!