Thought for the Season

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• Subject: Thought for the Season
• From: "* B* L* <r*@nets.com>
• Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 22:02:18 +0000

>From David Waggoner's poem, Lost:

"Stand still.
The trees ahead and bushes beside you are not lost.
Wherever you are its all here.
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
Listen! The forest leaves have whispered,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it you may come back again saying,
Here.
No two trees are the same to raven.
No two branches are the same to wren.
If what a tree or a branch does is lost on you
Then you are surely lost.
Stand still.
The forest knows where you are.
You must let it find you."

originally from the Ecopsychology Mailing List
Rand B. Lee
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