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Forest Stories Episode One Hundred Thirty Five The Whereabouts Of Rocks And Trees · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Hey, when it comes to podcasts listening, are you like me?
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  Speaker 1: Arrooe dot net. The searching is over. It's all in
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  Speaker 1: one place. Enjoy the exploration. Hey, thanks for being a
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  Speaker 1: part of the conversation. Welcome to foest Stories, a series
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  Speaker 1: of short winded adventures within a collection of skyscraping trees,
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  Speaker 1: stuck feet First and Georgia Clay right here in Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a huge part of my daily journey for
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  Speaker 1: over thirty three years. I Am the Poet in the Forest,
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  Speaker 1: a children's series written and recorded in the nineteen nineties.
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  Speaker 1: It's grown into multiple podcasts that now reach around the world,
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  Speaker 1: and none of it would be possible without this forest
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  Speaker 1: right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina, at the base
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  Speaker 1: of Heartbreak Hills. It's a sign that reads Rainbow Forest. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's time you get to meet what's inspired several generations
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  Speaker 1: long before the paved paths decorated with colorful homes colonized
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  Speaker 1: around this beautiful lake, slow moving stream, flatland swamps, and
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  Speaker 1: array of natural animals. There were families and business owners
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  Speaker 1: who are said to have raised into this area for
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  Speaker 1: the beauty of the land, wild roses, migratory birds, and
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  Speaker 1: wild grapevines. Those before me either forgot to write about
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  Speaker 1: it or it's buried somewhere inside their family tree. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for being a part of the conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the forest. The rainstorms, the spring winds,
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  Speaker 2: the changes in temperature, the drought, everything colliding into one
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  Speaker 2: moment of time, and we tend to forget about the
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  Speaker 2: living things that are outside the human want, need and desire.
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  Speaker 2: On this path today, walking through this forest, those changes
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  Speaker 2: that come naturally have created an unnatural situation. A gigantic
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  Speaker 2: elm tree has fallen near the slow moving stream, thirty
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  Speaker 2: five forty feet tall, not anymore. It's thirty five forty
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  Speaker 2: feet in length across this giant field that once had
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  Speaker 2: the freedom for all living things to walk through, to
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  Speaker 2: become a part of, to run by, just to be
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  Speaker 2: in a moment of all things forced. But it's now
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  Speaker 2: on its back, and I do wonder if the human
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  Speaker 2: being will ever take notice outside of Oh, my god,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta go get a chainsaw. I gotta chop this up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's not on my property, because if it were,
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  Speaker 2: it would already be a part of my soil. Because
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  Speaker 2: I believe there's a connection between all living things. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm the one that's going to say that rocks and
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  Speaker 2: trees are living things. And when they fall to their
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  Speaker 2: knees and under their backs like this one, then you
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  Speaker 2: find yourself in a position of well, what's next. Well,
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  Speaker 2: what's next? Is that a storyteller has fallen from history
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  Speaker 2: once it is cleaned up. If it is, it will
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  Speaker 2: no longer be able to tell the temperature, the course
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  Speaker 2: of the wind, the focus of the birds. It won't
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  Speaker 2: serve as a place or a home for the squirrel,
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  Speaker 2: a place for the copper head to hide behind. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: it's on its back and the only thing that's providing
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  Speaker 2: leaves for the deer and maybe the soon to be
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  Speaker 2: baby fawn. But it's happening, and it happens every day
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  Speaker 2: in this forest. And anyone who can walk through this
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  Speaker 2: forest and not see life, their life inside these trees,
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  Speaker 2: beside these rocks, by this lake, Ivy Lake, or even
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  Speaker 2: the slow moving stream. Then you're blind. You're blind, and
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  Speaker 2: that's what this podcast is all about, to help give
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  Speaker 2: you sight, to let you see that in your own
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  Speaker 2: presence of now. It doesn't have to be this forced.
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  Speaker 2: It can be just something, something that gives you that
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  Speaker 2: inner strength to stand taller than a tree before time
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  Speaker 2: itself lays you on your back. Woo Hey, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: being a part of a conversation.