Trees: The Alternative Cathedral

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Trees: The Alternative Cathedral

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known.

- David Wagoner -

Trees: The Alternative Cathedral

When I feel off-balance, shaken by the blows of life or mired in the inertia of not caring, I seek contact with nature, which I call a primary source of re-centering. Contact with nature offers a gift of presence, helping us to open up to the world around us, rather than pursue distracting thoughts or emotions. Even for an urban dweller, walking in a park fills one with a sense of one's roots in the natural world, an experience beneficial to all of us. Seashore, mountains, meadows, woods and desert all invite us to discover our own nature in theirs, to meet their presence with our own. But trees hold a special presence." This author's prose-poem on trees shares more. { read more }

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This week you could look at any aspect of nature with new eyes: as a force for centering yourself.


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