On Success and Fulfillment of Life
By the laws of nature, life must spare no expense to survive, it must persevere. The way that various forms of life approach this is as vast as the world itself, since it is precisely the environment an organism inhabits that determines its mode of survival. The physical, material, and biological characteristics of a space determine the adaptations that a living species develops. I emphasize the importance of the species, because the life cycle of many species involves a form of sacrifice of the individual to ensure the success of their offspring. The female praying mantis for example cannibalizes her male counterpart after mating. Antithetical it may seem, for an organism to end the life of one of its own species if as I said before life must persevere. However the female does this in order to secure nutrients to produce viable offspring. Without sustenance the female and her offspring would perish and with them their lineage. In this way the imperative of life to persevere extends past the individual to the species.
Even when aggregating all forms of life in the world, this principle of persistence applies. The most biomassive environments are those with ample resources, which result in rainforests. Nature produces such densely populated ecosystems through convoluted, interconnected systems of species that ingest the nutrients of the environment and transfer them to one another in perpetual cycles, all the while growing to maximum capacity. The importance of abundant resources should not be understated, but an equally contributing factor as to why so much life can be supported is because life is its own imperative. Life spreads wherever it can, and will expand as far as possible given the circumstances.
[Expand: The interdependent species — how the ecosystem is itself a kind of organism, each part serving the whole without intending to.]