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Forest Stories Episode One Hundred Forty Seven The Scent Of The Forest · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Hey, when it comes to podcast listening, are you like me?
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  Speaker 1: the exploration. Hey, thanks for being a part of the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Four Stories.
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  Speaker 2: A series of short-winded adventures within a collection of skyscraping
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  Speaker 2: trees stuck feet first in Georgia clay right here in Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a huge part of my daily journey for
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  Speaker 2: over 33 years. I am the poet in the forest,
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  Speaker 2: a children's series written and recorded in the 1990s. It's
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  Speaker 2: 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 Hill sits 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 array
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  Speaker 2: of natural animals, there were families and business owners who
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  Speaker 2: are said to have raced into this area for the
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  Speaker 2: beauty of the land, wild roses, migratory birds, and wild grapevines.
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  Speaker 2: Those before me either forgot to write about it, or
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  Speaker 2: it's buried somewhere inside their family tree. Hey, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: being a part of the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the forest. They're saying it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a day of 113 degrees with a heating index.
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  Speaker 1: It's only 10 o'clock in the morning and the humidity
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  Speaker 1: is so thick out here that you've got to breathe
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  Speaker 1: all of this in while walking through this forest. And I,
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  Speaker 1: being a man who happens to love this forest, I'm
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  Speaker 1: staring at every tree. I'm looking at the rooting system.
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  Speaker 1: I'm staring at the ground. I'm studying what the animals
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  Speaker 1: are doing and the insects as well. 113 degrees is
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  Speaker 1: not just a human thing. It's a planet thing. The
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  Speaker 1: air itself, like I said, it's humidified, but the scent
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  Speaker 1: of it, there's so many different scents out here. Every
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  Speaker 1: now and then you might get the scent of a
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  Speaker 1: crepe myrtle in full blossom, but you're also going to
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  Speaker 1: get that dampness, kind of a stale smell. And it's
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  Speaker 1: one of those that kind of reminds you of, don't
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  Speaker 1: go into this location. Something doesn't feel right. I'm in
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  Speaker 1: a forest. You know how a forest floor is. You
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  Speaker 1: can't trust a forest floor. You don't know where the
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  Speaker 1: holes are. And more importantly, you don't know where construction
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  Speaker 1: trucks are going to go next. Just like that, as
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  Speaker 1: they pass you by in the forest. What does all
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  Speaker 1: this even mean in the way of being aware of
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  Speaker 1: what's happening with your forest? Because people are always chopping
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  Speaker 1: down trees. Oh, I got to get rid of them
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  Speaker 1: because I just put a brand new roof on. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my pool area, I don't want the shade. What did
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  Speaker 1: you do in the process of preparation before putting that
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  Speaker 1: seedling in the soil? That was one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that we did in 1997 in the way of putting 1,700
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  Speaker 1: trees inside this ground with the Boy Scouts as well
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  Speaker 1: as the U.S. Forest Service. We had to make sure
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  Speaker 1: we were doing it in the right place. But now
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  Speaker 1: that I see all these trees coming down, not from
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  Speaker 1: the 1700 I put in the ground, but everybody else's
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  Speaker 1: connection to this forest, they just feel they're too tall.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to bring damage. And do forest farmers and
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  Speaker 1: do forest rangers do the same thing? They walk through
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  Speaker 1: the forest like I do every day. with the idea
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  Speaker 1: that something's got to come down, because what else are
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  Speaker 1: we going to do today but sweep the floor? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. It's just very damaging to think about the
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  Speaker 1: life of a forest in a careless life of people
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  Speaker 1: who want a perfect Home Depot Lowe's magazine cover world.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the way of growing, but I've got this scent. moldy, stingy.
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  Speaker 1: We've got some crepe myrtle mixed in there. It's almost
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  Speaker 1: like a bad cup of coffee, and if you don't
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  Speaker 1: drink it, you ain't getting a caffeine rush. So you've
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  Speaker 1: got to take the forest the way it is. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for being a part of the conversation.