PEACE from TREES

Ten of 28

A figment? What is that? How is it that? A figment? Imagination is so formative in its beginning, yet our awareness, our figment, it’s not fluid, but quick, ever-changing, shifting. There’s a needing breathing unplanning born to being… It’s unfigured and unmet. Like Kangaroo hops so high it climbs up trees in remotest of remotest of remaining wild left on earth.

And this discipline towards truth as physical reality grounds us in cause, grounds us in effect. Keeps us from falling as fast as our imaginations; keeps us steady growing climbing with each breathing living truth in seed grows of its inner-watered sense of who we are as forever, of who you are as even more real and grounded as our physical world?

All that’s physical melts to is thought’s illusion. It melts to essence of its energetic, distilled to its truth… Simultaneous we must also maintain a home, maintain a family, friends, lovers… A path as purposeful as Kangaroos in trees as butterflies bigger than hands, as wild not fearful, but curious. As pleased to be introduced: pleased to be on a path that remembers home!

Poem and photos by DeaneTR © 2008
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This series of 28 photo-poems are inspired by writings related to forests around the world. The poem above is inspired by the condensed news article below. If you'd like to learn more about forest issues from around the world on a regular basis subscribe to my newsletter/weblog which is called: "Earth's Tree News" earthtreenews-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
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What if together with our friends, family and acquaintances, we could probe the root causes of the biggest threats to our planet? What if we were able to grasp something of the common origins of these threats and then identify powerful entry points to interrupt them? And more than that, what if we could then feel we are shifting the destructive underlying patterns towards health? Now, that’s power. Our Power. --Frances Moore Lappe’s “Getting a Grip”
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An astonishing mist-shrouded "lost world" of previously unknown and rare animals and plants high in the mountain rainforests of New Guinea has been uncovered by an international team of scientists. Among the new species of birds, frogs, butterflies and palms discovered in the expedition through this pristine environment, untouched by man, was the spectacular Berlepsch's six-wired bird of paradise. The area, about 300,000 hectares, lies on the upper slopes of the Foja Mountains, in the easternmost and least explored province of western New Guinea, which is part of Indonesia. The scientists are the first outsiders to see it. They could only reach the remote mountainous area by helicopter, which they described as akin to finding a "Garden of Eden". In a jungle camp site, surrounded by giant flowers and unknown plants, the researchers watched rare bowerbirds perform elaborate courtship rituals. And we have only scratched the surface of what is there." Entomologists among the scientists identified more than 150 different species of butterfly, including four completely new species and several new sub-species, some of which are related to the common English "cabbage white" butterfly. Other butterflies observed included the rare giant birdwing, which is the world's largest butterfly, with a wingspan that stretches up to seven inches. Scientists also found more than 20 new species of frogs, four new butterflies, five new species of palm and many other plants yet to be classified, including what may be the world's largest rhododendron flower. Botanists on the team said many plants were completely unlike anything they had encountered before. Tree kangaroos, which are endangered elsewhere in New Guinea, were numerous and the team found one species entirely new to the island. The golden-mantled tree kangaroo is considered the most beautiful but also the rarest of the jungle-dwelling marsupials. There were also other marsupials, such as wallabies and mammals that have been hunted almost to extinction elsewhere. And a rare spiny anteater, the long beaked echidna, about which little is known, allowed itself to be picked up by hand. Dr Beehler said: "What was amazing was the lack of wariness of all the animals. In the wild, all species tend to be shy of humans, but that is learnt behaviour because they have encountered mankind. In Foja they did not appear to mind our presence at all. The discoveries by the team from Conservation International and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences will enhance the island's reputation as one of the most biodiverse on earth. The mountainous terrain has caused hundreds of distinct species to evolve, often specific to small areas. The Foja Mountains, which reach heights of 2,200 metres, have not been colonised by local tribes, which live closer to sea level. Game is abundant close to villages, so there is little incentive for hunters to penetrate up the slopes. A further 750,000 hectares of ancient forest is also only lightly visited. One previous scientific trip has been made to the uplands - the evolutionary biologist and ornithologist Professor Jared Diamond visited 25 years ago - but last year's mission was the first full scientific expedition. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment
/scientists-hail-discovery-of-hundreds-of-
new-species-in-remote-new-guinea-465841.html

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