Thank The Trees

For They Are the Clothing of the Earth

“Wild”

....and they are being removed by humans faster than glaciation. If we care about climate change and a future for life on Earth, trees are the most important giver and protector of life we have.

They absorb CO2, they retain moisture, protect mycellium of mushrooms in the soil, green ferns, mosses and many more plants and species. They give habitat, homes and protection to so much life...insects, birds, cougars, bears, salamanders and squirrels to name just a few.

They create soil and oxygen, cleanse the waters, absorb the dew and condense the fog.

They give us shade and cool forests, warmth and protection from the elements. Their strength is beyond words, weathering storms, wind, rain and drought.

Their diversity is akin to the races of humans on the planet...red, yellow, brown, etc. The aroma they give off (evergreens) is wonderful, each having unique strengths and abilities. They are the greatest diversity and the most awe inspiring and beautiful beings on this planet but unfortunately that gift is disappearing rapidly. The planet is now covered in desert, wasteland, clear-cuts and development...humans disregarding the real value and gift that living trees provide.

Short term profit for a few is destroying this planet for all. It must stop if we care about our children and future generations of all life.

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                           TREES

There is nothing on Earth quite as lovely as trees.

Their beauty's unequaled as far as one sees.

The wind in their branches sings sweet mysteries...

Of voices and spirits from over the seas.

They speak to us gently of times long ago...

Knowledge so ancient that only One knows...

A Great Spirit so present and through All it shows

The love and the patience amidst all of our woes.

A Mother Earth's beauty so tall and so proud...

Giving so much, all their gifts do abound....

The needles and leaves, seeds and cones on the ground

Make the earth that will nourish the cycles around...

Calling the rain like antennae to Earth,

Cooling, protecting the soil and its worth.

The worms and the insects and species do hide

In the branches and roots and away deep inside.

The fruit for a food and the nuts and the seeds

Providing and nourishing much of our needs.

Our connection to forests, to land and the trees

Is the link to the knowledge of life that we need.

To stand in a grove of old forest so green

Will reveal all the wisdom of ages unseen.

So think when you bring down a gift that's so precious

Of all we are losing; it surely will test us.

If given a chance with some love and some care

They can change our perspective, our lot and our fare

And heal all the sickness and calm all the grief

And provide for those answers that each of us seek.

The green of the Earth is linked to the air,

To the sky and clouds and the fish and the bear,

To all that we love and to all that we share.

The breath that we breathe that's beyond all compare.

I hope we will see the true value of air,

Of pure water and forests so precious and rare.

They're riches beyond all the gold in the hand...

Remember connections to trees and the land,

Remember our children, for them we must stand

For the truth and the forests...I feel that we can...

Through loving and caring and showing the way,

Find a path full of light that will help us to stay

On this Earth in a great and harmonious way

Surrounded by healing, fresh air and fresh water,

Shade when we need it; to stay and not falter

In greed or destruction, in fear or in hate,

Overcome all those forces that could make it too late...

Too late to continue to see, hear and smell

The beauty around us that's served us so well.

We're one little blip, at this moment alive...

Our choices determine if we will survive.

Our hopes for the future continue to strive

For the trees that do bind us, the Earth and the Sky.

Susanne Lawson

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