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Wisdom of the Pines

May 1, 2008 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

As an ecological epidemic sweeps through the mountains of British Columbia, is anyone speaking the truth? Eileen Delehanty Pearkes listens to the trees in the 7th of a 10-part series exploring the yamas & niyamas.

From ascent magazine, issue 37, spring 2008:

After a winter of stillness, the Earth has begun to breathe again. I can hear plants all around me responding to the signals only they understand: warmer temperatures, longer days, access to nutrients released into the soil by last autumn’s leaves. The trees, the shrubs, the mosses and the bulbs below the surface speak the instinctual language of growth…

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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes explores landscape, history and the human imagination in writing, maps and visual notebooks.

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