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The Lyrics From Ernie's Forest Chapter 448 Stop Being So Selfish With Natures Love For Us · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Enjoy your exploration. Yo, what's going on? Ernie was my
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  Speaker 1: blue crown conure. For over 34 years, he and I
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  Speaker 1: looked over this beautiful forest right here in South Charlotte,
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina. I mean, every day, Ernie would sit in
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  Speaker 1: his beautiful home, overlooking these trees, the nearby lake, and
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  Speaker 1: every bit the wildlife strolling so peacefully on the land below.
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  Speaker 1: Ernie and I shared the same vision. It's this forest.
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  Speaker 1: We both looked into the trees and studied the earth below.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there is something so amazingly spiritual going on here.
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  Speaker 1: The lyrics from Ernie's Forest. We both received an amazing
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  Speaker 1: amount of energy, and I put all my trust and
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  Speaker 1: skills as a student into what he was willing to
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  Speaker 1: share with me. Because these aren't my words. These are
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  Speaker 1: the lyrics from Ernie's Forest. Today we're reading from September 21st, 2024.
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  Speaker 1: It's chapter number 448. When the forest that you cherish
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  Speaker 1: bites back. Could be the park. It could be the
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  Speaker 1: building that you walk through. It could be the mall.
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  Speaker 1: It could be that one place that you go to
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  Speaker 1: for serenity and some peace and solitude and something is
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  Speaker 1: biting you back. The changing of seasons can send our
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  Speaker 1: sinuses into a fit. Now this forest is full of
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  Speaker 1: pollen from the trees, the shrubs, the weeds, and long
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  Speaker 1: tall grass. And I laugh at this long list of
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  Speaker 1: pollen makers because in 1997 when we planted 1,700 seedlings
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  Speaker 1: in this forest, I didn't realize how much it would
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  Speaker 1: be playing with my allergies 27 years later. The path.
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  Speaker 1: Cedar trees, oak, pine and spruce. And it doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: to be from this forest at all to get into
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  Speaker 1: our systems of breathing. Pollen is known for traveling for miles.
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  Speaker 1: Suffering from allergies is on the increase for all people.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, climate change and other environmental factors have scientists
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  Speaker 1: today digging deeper into their studies. It's like, what the
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  Speaker 1: hell is going on here? Well, let's not forget about
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  Speaker 1: how we react to mold and spores as well. Research
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  Speaker 1: shows the pollen season has grown three weeks longer over
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  Speaker 1: the past 10 years. So when your favorite place of
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  Speaker 1: taking a walk reaches out to bite you and as
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  Speaker 1: miserable as you feel after, being in that presence of
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  Speaker 1: nature is where inner peace is always going to grow.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see the hands of those. that have taken
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  Speaker 1: one big look at the atmosphere outside their window, be
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  Speaker 1: it the windshield of your car, the window at work
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  Speaker 1: or the window at home, and something has told you
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  Speaker 1: deep inside, you ain't going out there. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: affect your voice. It's going to really poison your lungs.
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  Speaker 1: Your body is going to hurt. Do not go out there.
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  Speaker 1: And then you've got that other side of your brain.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost like one of those sitcoms on TV where
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is on this side, the devil's on this side,
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  Speaker 1: and they're pulling on you. They're pulling on your strings.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to go out there. Why do I have
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  Speaker 1: to go out there? I'm going to hurt. You're being selfish.
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  Speaker 1: Did we really have to go there? When you decide
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  Speaker 1: that the rain is too much for you to handle,
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  Speaker 1: you decide. are being selfish because out there in the
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  Speaker 1: real world where there is no ceiling, there are no walls.
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  Speaker 1: It's just nature being alone with nature, the atmosphere of
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  Speaker 1: all things right now. It wants to share and you've
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  Speaker 1: decided that's not for me. You're not better than what's
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  Speaker 1: going on out there. You're not because all of that
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  Speaker 1: that's outside your windshield, your windows at work, your windows
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  Speaker 1: at home, All of that out there is what you
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  Speaker 1: need for right here inside your heart. And sometimes getting
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  Speaker 1: drenched in the rain is the child inside of you laughing.
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  Speaker 1: Because how long has it been since you have had
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  Speaker 1: a real childlike laugh? And I'm not talking about one
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  Speaker 1: associated with a sitcom or a comedian that's on Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: A real honest to God laugh. Why not take a
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  Speaker 1: walk on a 101 degree day? Because there's something out there.
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  Speaker 1: If it has to be out there, why can't you
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  Speaker 1: take a two or three minute stroll? Or just sit
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  Speaker 1: outside with a glass of sweet tea from the south
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  Speaker 1: and find yourself in a position of just listening. Stop
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  Speaker 1: being selfish. Because that world outside of your windshield, your
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  Speaker 1: window at work and your window at home, outside in
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  Speaker 1: that world, there are lessons. to be learned. I'm Errol.
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  Speaker 1: These are not my words. These are the lyrics from
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  Speaker 1: Ernie's Forest.