Andreas Weber describes love as "the inexhaustible drive of both life-forms and the ecosystem to grow and unfold. It is the desire for such unfolding and the joy experienced when that drive is fulfilled.... It unfolds regardless of whether something good happens to me or to another being, because it is the joy  experienced whenever life increases in the world, somewhere." (Matter and Desire) He adds: > This love governs the certainty with which two cells find one another, the precision with which diligent molecules repair the  fissures and breaks in our cells’ DNA at the rate of a hundred thousand times per second. It accompanies the flowers’ blooming and the beetles’ instinctual feeding on the blossoms’ pollen. Love directs all of these life processes—not as a kitschy feeling, but as an unbridled force with which creative energy molds the world into individuals and then destroys them. > > Love, as I reflected on it, was something like the inside of aliveness. Thomas Crowther, a professor of ecology, describes an experiment he did with fungi which also explains why life loves diversity: > As an early career researcher, one of my favorite studies involved two fungi fighting for space in a petri-dish. In many cases, one fungus defeated its opponent and the system collapsed. However, when we introduced a third species, it often fought with the dominant competitor, allowing the weaker species to survive. It’s a rock-paper-scissors system (where the enemy of my enemy is my friend), and when we introduced a fourth, fifth, and sixth fungus, the chances of finding these competitive loops increased. The more species we included, the greater the chances that all species survived. > > This “intransitive competition” is one of countless ecological mechanisms by which diversity begets diversity in natural systems. Biodiversity is the infinite network of interactions that gives rise to healthy nature, where every species needs other species to survive. > – Time. “Healthy Biodiversity Is The Reason To Fight Climate Change,” November 16, 2022. [https://time.com/6234466/healthy-biodiversity-climate-change/](https://time.com/6234466/healthy-biodiversity-climate-change/).