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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: haqihana who wrote (4391)2/22/2006 4:52:24 PM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
A better truth has never been spoken, Haqihana.

I've spent as much time in the woods as most, and I know it.

Trees speak all the time, but you have to listen with all your senses, and sometimes with cheaters. One time I had a pair of sunglasses with amber lenses. I drove around in the woods, and suddenly I realized I was seeing budworm infestations that were starting up in the crowns of my trees. I knew budworm was on the move, but it had never been reported in my area before. Without the amber lenses, I couldn't see the wavelength of light being reflected by the needles that had been affected by budworm.

Another time I was drilling a hickory tree with my increment borer, a tool that extracts a core so you can count growth rings. I hit a soft spot, extracted the core...

...and the tree peed all over me through the borer.

Now what do you suppose that tree was trying to tell me?

By the way, my totem, as you might guess, is Moose.
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