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Red Wood
07:32
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A choir of branches
Given voice by the wind
Monuments to might
Standing silent and alive
Gathering kindling
At the feet of giants
As the shadows lengthen
And the air grows cold
Sparks leap forth
A fire born
Fed by the offerings
Of immense watchers
Red wood burns fragrant
Memories awaken
Smoke of incense cedar
Through moonlight ascending
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Sempervirens
06:22
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Dark green infinity stretches before me
Where vision ends so does the world
Circumscribed by natural rhythms
The principle of life given perfect form
Silhouettes floating disembodied in fog
The merging of individual and collective
“And in trees… behind a great forest, for instance… may stand a rather splendid Entity that manifests through all the thousand individual trees—some huge collective life, quite as minutely and delicately organized as our own. It might merge and blend with ours under certain conditions, so that we could understand it by being it, for a time at least. It might even engulf human vitality into the immense whirlpool of its own vast dreaming life. The pull of a big forest on a man can be tremendous and utterly overwhelming.”
The pull of a forest on a man can be tremendous and utterly overwhelming
The principle of life granted pristine form
Evergreen resplendence, Sequoia sempervirens
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As behemoths decompose
Death gives way to nascent life
Rot! Decay! And let new life spring forth!
Your death shall echo throughout eternity
As a flood rages down the canyon bed
As thunder crashes through the trees
So shall your terminus reverberate
Even as matter dissolves
So shall it reconstitute
As in death, so in life
As above, so in loam
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Sylvan Mythologies
06:39
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“It's rather a comforting thought… that life is about us everywhere, and that there is really no dividing line between what we call organic and inorganic.”
The gaze pulled upward to crown’d heights
A natural contemplation of splendor
Grandiosity made manifest by Nature’s hand
To be subsumed by something greater than self
To be alive in the silent majesty of all that is
To walk ‘neath the eaves of an evergreen cathedral
Muffled footsteps on a carpet of needles
The pulse of the universe in every atom
Awash in the ebb and flow of creation
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5. |
Wreathed in Fog
04:59
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Inhumanism
09:01
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A species at home in forests and woods
Adrift now in winding asphalt labyrinths
Concrete smothering the living earth
Suffocating unseen beneath our feet
The cradle of civilization gave birth to a hydra
A dragon of bottomless hunger
The very lungs of the earth eviscerated
A suicidal species destined for annihilation
A frightened ape driven by insanity and fear
Homo rapiens
Yet there is hope
A flickering spark of prerational sense
A reverence for that which grows untamed and free
A recognition that the wild places of the world
Are places of worship more profound than any
Erected by the hands of man
Wilderness lives within our hearts
It does not need us
But oh, how we need it
Disparate myths converge
A reverence millennia old
A species at home in forests and woods
A reverence millennia old
Praise the uncultivated tract
Raise the wild to an ideal within yourself
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