Do trees have souls?
Yes
And hearts?
Yes.
do they grieve?
Yes.
Do they jostle for space and
compete for water?
Yes.
Do they shelter their young?
They do.
Do they suffer depression?
They can.
When birds crown them withsong, do they know joy?
When squirrels spiral the length of
their trunks, do they laugh?
And when water rots, when storm
dismembers, when drought dispirits,
when insects ravage, when pollution
chokes, do they suffer?
Yes, and go to their end as we do with
dignity or agony, regret or relief,
curious to the end about
the fate of their souls.
Yes. Perhaps they do.
Johanne Renbeck
Feb 2010
1 comments:
Jo, how beautiful. Thank you for witnessing this tree and asking these questions about trees, our fellow beings, our kin.
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