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August 25 - September 10, 2024
Trees are, after all, majestic beings, under whose crowns we seem as insignificant as ants in the grass.
There are more life forms in a handful of forest soil than there are people on the planet.
“Und wenn ich geh, dann geht nur ein Teil von mir.” “And when I go, only a part of me is gone.” This phrase from a hit by German pop singer Peter Maffay could have been written by a tree.
Chief Marilyn Slett, president of Coastal First Nations, is well aware of the forest’s importance: “Our leaders understand our well being is connected to the well being of our lands and waters… If we use our knowledge and our wisdom to look after [them], they will look after us into the future.”70 The Kichwa of Sarayaku, Ecuador, see their forest as “the most exalted expression of life itself.”
