All around the ancient sylvan language of the trees rises and falls with the soughing of the wind.
This was an idiom that once was as familiar as our mother tongues, yet now it lies forgotten and even sometimes feared.
In every cell and fibre the trees are telling the story of themselves and their relationship with the ecology.
However, this conversation is not limited to just sound as the air is alive with the smell and the taste of the astringent pines.
In these fractured days perhaps it is time to sit with the trees once more and enter back into the tale of the forests.
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Photo: Pines at the Virgen de la Luz. Courtesy of the author.