Nature… cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they may be useful to any being.
This quote means nature does not care what something looks like as long as they are beneficial to any being. This quote applies to actual nature, but also the nature of a person. The appearance of someone doesn't affect any being, it’s what they do to it. If a monster was watering flowers and fertilizing soil, nature wouldn’t be bothered by the fact that it is a monster, all nature cares about is how their actions affect any being. On the other hand, the nature of any being should not judge something on its appearance, rather than their personality and quality of their character. Anyone can be beneficial towards any being no matter what their appearance is. This quote is saying that actions go much further than looks in the eyes of nature.
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In this case, Callie would be the “any being”, she tried to chop cotton which would be the “nature”. Since Callie was helping the “any being” ; her father, nature did not care that she was merely a child. Whether Callie or a field hand was chopping to cotton, nature would not care about their appearance, as long as they were helping any being. Just like in the book The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate , Callie Vee does not care what a species looks like, it is their qualities, adaptations, and life cycle that interests her and Grandaddy. In the specific case of the grasshoppers, their coloring interests her but that was an adaptation to camouflage in the grass, not necessarily an appearance. Callie’s human nature led her to feed and nourish her new