You’re Not In Nature. You Are Nature 🌲
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." — Albert Einstein
We treat nature like a weekend escape.
Something “out there” to visit. To hike through. To photograph.
But the ancients didn’t walk through the forest like tourists.
They belonged to it.
“The ancients knew we are nature, not separate observers.”
They didn’t separate “mind” from “mountain,” or “soul” from “soil.”
To them, the wind wasn’t just weather.
It was spirit.
It was voice.
It was memory.
And maybe, deep down, we know this too.
That’s why silence feels so different under trees than under ceilings.
That’s why heartbreak somehow feels less suffocating beside a river than inside a room.
It’s not poetic. It’s biological.
You are not watching nature.
You are nature, watching itself.
And forgetting this…
That’s the root of our modern madness.
That’s why we feel so disconnected.
Because when you cut yourself off from nature, you cut yourself off from your own source code.
You don’t just lose the trees.
You lose your rhythm.
You lose your place.
You lose the s…
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