Just A Thought

[MrJesterium]

Funny, I heard the same thing said about artists. Julian spent all his time in the forest with Germanics who spoke crudely yet frankly.

Interesting how the crow only allows the kid to pet him. I interviewed an American hiker who related this story:

"Birds were always interacting with me, and I suspect they were like the gossips of the forest, who would inform all the other animals of my presence. I would visit the dens of rattlesnakes, who never seemed alarmed by me, but if anyone else was near, they were nervous. Birds would even go out of their way to show me where to find berries, which they had no interest in eating themselves, but they knew what I liked."

Animals are a lot smarter than we give them credit for. And I do believe that they communicate with each other. I think that the trees communicate also.

It could be sheer coincidence, but 5 years ago, Tamar ran off in the woods. She was just a puppy, she was by herself, and it is over 100 acres in my back 40. After 3 days and no Tamar, I didn't have anything to lose, so I sat down in the woods and had a long talk with the trees.

I told them that she was a puppy, lost, and no clue of how to get home. I asked them to guide her home. About 4 hours later, she came limping out of the woods, all slow, and I could tell she was exhausted and hurting.

Nobody in their right mind actually believes that the trees led her home. Nobody but me. Not sure about the mind part though.

Yeah, I've been continually surprised by the ants in apartment, they will go to extreme lengths to reach food. Once they ended up in my toaster oven picking up scraps of food until they learned their lesson from being burnt to a crisp (I didn't do this deliberately, I noticed them too late). My family used to store food on top of a cardboard box, one day we noticed they were swarming all over the carpet and climbing up the box, they even managed to tear through plastic packages. I noticed that while shaking the box, they would enter into a cataleptic state (different from just staying still, which is their usual response), don't know if science has inquired about it.

About your puppy, I'm sorry that you had to go through that ordeal of almost losing her. I don't think it was the trees either, but I suppose some unseen beings could've overheard your prayer. Some friends of mine used to speak of trees as if they were people, they felt like they were being caressed by the winds and branches.

On a side note, there were some interesting clips on youtube where tree branches were recorded swinging wildly without any explanation, even during a storm iirc.

It's interesting how some animal species can easily find their way back home over great distances while others can't, at least not while they're young and inexperienced.