The Earth Speaking
Whether we are brave or vulnerable, the world is so. Yet it is not so easy to believe the earth is a mirror to our hearts. From the moment we find ourselves alone in a forest, atop a mountain, or any place we might view something called nature, the earth seems to say to us, 'What do you think?' And how often do we reply with a description of the trees, the birds, and the flowing creek, and then tell them how we feel; or yet the mind runs off to our daily troubles and concerns in hopes that an answer will soon come upon us. Who will not go deeper into those matters when pride is at stake? The answer must lead somewhere because the concept of answering is our only means of knowledge. And the path must finally end because it was begun with the intention of finishing. But thinking is counterproductive; it takes us to all those places except the one we really want to know. So it is here that I find this question comes not from the earth, but me, and the reply is simply the way the earth tries to speak. The problem, however, is to find out which question has been posed.
Douglas Thornton
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