LOOK / experience More or less everything started life as a seed, from which it became something else, something more, responding to the profusion of experiences and inputs such as water, sunlight, soil and air – the phenomena we absorb to grow.
Trees are a profound example. They are beacons of beauty, patience, silent suffering and generosity, and give freely what is too often taken for granted. There is a distorted sense of human entitlement, and little appreciation of the symbiosis of all things.
Living in nature, especially among trees, restores our connectedness. It is a way to put our responses ahead of convenience, comfort and the luxuries advocated by a world consumed by its own consumption, encouraged by excess marketing, social media and judgement.
Trees remind us of our…
