If you're a city dweller and you walk into the forest, you might enjoy the fresh air, the serenity, the beauty of the plants. Even so, you might be somewhat detached from them. Being from a modern civilisation, you might be so removed from what's around you, that you see the trees as objects, rather than living things.
Of course, when a monkey, a shaman or hunter-gatherer walks in the woods, she has a very different experience. She can't help but notice the life around her, acknowledge and respect it.
A friend used to say, trees are a genuine public service - providing oxygen, regulating the temperature, and increasing rainfall to promote more life. Plants and trees are a part of a system... our system - the system to which we belong.
When we walk around and notice trees, we can consciously respect their presence, and life.
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