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Forest Stories Episode One Hundred Thirty Seven Standing Back Up To Fight More Winds Of Change · 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 Forest 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 2: It's grown into multiple podcasts that now reach around the world,
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  Speaker 2: and none of it would be possible without this forest
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  Speaker 2: right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina, at the base
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  Speaker 2: of Heartbreak Hills. It's a sign that reads Rainbow Forest. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's time you get to meet what's inspired several generations
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  Speaker 2: long before the paved paths decorated with colorful homes colonized
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  Speaker 2: around this beautiful lake, slow moving stream, flatland swamps, and
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  Speaker 2: array of natural animals. There were families and business owners
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  Speaker 2: who are said to have raced into this area for
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  Speaker 2: the beauty of the land, wild roses, migratory birds, and
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  Speaker 2: wild grapevines. Those before me either forgot to write about
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  Speaker 2: it or it's buried somewhere inside their family tree. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for being a part of the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the forest. Every time I walk on
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  Speaker 1: this path anymore, the first thing that gets my attention
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  Speaker 1: when I come down Heartbreak Hill is that tree. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you're familiar with that tree, an oak,
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  Speaker 1: one that I literally saw on the ground, given up
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  Speaker 1: on the soils that protected its roots, giving up. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, maybe just saying noh, I've had enough. It's
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  Speaker 1: time for me to give in to all the other
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  Speaker 1: creatures of life that need to utilize the energy that
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  Speaker 1: I store inside the rings of my tree. But then,
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  Speaker 1: but then you have to understand. Then the next day
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  Speaker 1: I come down here and this thirty to thirty five
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  Speaker 1: foot tree is standing back up. Hold on, holld on,
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  Speaker 1: hold on, let me understand this. So this tree, this
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  Speaker 1: oak it falls onto the ground. Yes, to the point
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  Speaker 1: to where the owners of the forest took the time
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  Speaker 1: to trim off a lot of the heavy branches up
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  Speaker 1: on top. Yes, we're talking about an oak tree here,
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  Speaker 1: thirty to thirty five feet tall. It was on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: I walk by it every single day. It's by the
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  Speaker 1: slow moving stream, and we tend to lose a lot
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  Speaker 1: of trees by the slow moving stream because what we
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  Speaker 1: don't want to talk about, or we refuse to see,
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  Speaker 1: is the fact that that slow moving stream is constantly
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  Speaker 1: eating at the presence of a tree. It wants its
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  Speaker 1: rooting system, it wants everything. It wants that tree. Get
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  Speaker 1: off my land, take your ball and go home. So
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  Speaker 1: this tree thirty to thirty five feet an oak tree,
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  Speaker 1: falls onto the forest floor. It is down for the count.
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  Speaker 1: The owners of the land come in, they trim the
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  Speaker 1: tree the top leaves, which are pretty heavy, and the
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  Speaker 1: oak tree thirty to thirty five feet tall is standing
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  Speaker 1: back up. How is that even possible? It has really
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  Speaker 1: racked my imagination. I have done the research on it.
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  Speaker 1: I have so many future podcasts coming up on that
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  Speaker 1: very subject, because there's obviously a lesson to be learned
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  Speaker 1: about this oak thirty to thirty five feet by the
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  Speaker 1: slow moving stream that is going toward Lake Eye. Nearly
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  Speaker 1: every bit I'm talking ninety five to ninety nine percent
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  Speaker 1: of all the research that I shoved my face into
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  Speaker 1: and took my writing instrument and scratched it into the
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  Speaker 1: surface of a once living tree that gave its inside
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  Speaker 1: rings to me to write upon. It says, it's feasibally impossible.
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  Speaker 1: It is one of those things that it may or
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  Speaker 1: may not happen, but the likelihood of it happening are rare.
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  Speaker 1: And yet I have fallen witness to it, and coming
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  Speaker 1: down Heartbreak Hill today, to my right in the meadow,
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  Speaker 1: next to the slow moving stream headed toward Ivy Lake,
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  Speaker 1: the tree is standing. Nobody beyond this moment of now
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  Speaker 1: is going to believe this story. Thanks for being a
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  Speaker 1: part of the conversation.