"We live in times of such great potency. The time of the sixth mass extinction
that a vast majority of us are participating in and co-creating, just by how we
live our lives, and the choices that we make. We human beings, need the tree
beings, the kingdom of the plant people, for our very breath; and if we wish to
steward our planetary home away from what appears to be an inevitable fate of
climate and species collapse. But why is it so difficult to convince more and
more people to plant and care for trees? Whenever I ask this question, I go back
to the core of it -- how do people actually 'relate' to trees? Do they?!
And then I'm reminded that being in relationship with any being is incredibly
complex. There is beauty. There is also messiness and injury. Drama.
Poignancy. Something that appears to keep relationships afloat in stormy seas
is commitment. To a cause or a principle or a shared life perspective.
Something larger than the beings involved in the relationship. It might serve
us well to cultivate these complex, nuanced relationships with the trees in
our lives too."
More in this thought-provoking post that features A.K Ramanujam's poem,
'Ecology.'
