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The Flower: Part 2- Pollination and Sex life of Flowers

“Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature’s tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.”– Louie Schwartzberg, from The Hidden Beauty of Pollination After I posted the first...

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The Flower In Three Parts: Part 3 -The Flower as Healer

Around every flower is the sweet fragrance of scented air. This field of fragrance is the flower’s soul. The soul is not just inside the flower. The flower lives inside the soul.  As we do.”  Tom Cowan...

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Trees – the teacher in the forest

Part one:  Conifers A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear...

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The 12 most important deciduous native trees in the Cascadian Bio-region

BIG LEAF MAPLE (Acer macrophyllum) Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they...

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The 12 Most Important Decidious Native Trees in the Cascadian Bio-region

Red Alder (Alnus rubra) During the storm I dreamt of Red Alder.  I dreamt that the spirit of the tree was leading me away from danger.  Then I woke and saw ruts of the big machines and I cried for the...

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Black Cottonwood and the Balm of Gilead (Populus balsamifer ssp. Trichocarpa)

“Perhaps you have noticed that even in the slightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all...

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White or Paper Birch (Betula Papyrifera)

Earth’s the right place for love: I don’t know where it’s likely to go better. I’d like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could...

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Indian-Plum or Osoberry (Oemieria cerasiformis)

The Spring Mouse is running, jumping in love with the world -          Ellen O’Shea (Spring of 1978) It is early spring.  How do I know?  The days are getting longer, the temperatures are rising just a...

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The Journey

‘And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?’ – Rumi   In April 2013 I began a journey that I thought would take me to the Hoh Rain Forest on the Olympic Peninsula, instead the path...

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Into the Hoh

There are places on the earth where everything is in balance.  Places where the boundaries between humans and nature disappear.  Upon entrance to these natural places the human spirit leaves the cloak...

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