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Forest Stories Episode One Hundred Thirty Three Creating Paths Toward Longevity · 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: 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 raced 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: Hey, welcome back to the forest. Does anybody ever think
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  Speaker 2: about longevity? I know when I walked into this forest
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  Speaker 2: for the very first time in November of nineteen ninety two,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think of the longevity everything that I did
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  Speaker 2: in this forest to help prevent the actual erosion of
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  Speaker 2: this ninety five foot drop from the front of the
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  Speaker 2: forest all the way down to the slow moving stream
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  Speaker 2: which leads to Lake Ivy and connects every living thing
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  Speaker 2: together as one, from the snakes to the turtles, to
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  Speaker 2: the mosquitoes, to the birds, to you name it. It's
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  Speaker 2: all connected inside this little world. And I've often wondered,
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  Speaker 2: did anybody ever think of longevity? Not just my side
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  Speaker 2: of the forest as I walk through it today, I
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  Speaker 2: sit here, and I see very little change, as if
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  Speaker 2: someone didn't have a vision in order to plant, to
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  Speaker 2: give rebirth, to sit there and put focus on well,
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  Speaker 2: what happens when? And it's that when that tends to
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  Speaker 2: lead people in directions where they have to make a choice,
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  Speaker 2: a choice to either further the story or to basically
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  Speaker 2: just get rid of it. Because that's the difference between Charlotte,
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  Speaker 2: North Carolina and Charleston, South Carolina. Where Charleston puts its
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  Speaker 2: focus on its history. In this forest, longevity doesn't seemed
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  Speaker 2: to be the word. It doesn't seem to be what
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  Speaker 2: people are shooting for. It's always new and improved. Look
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  Speaker 2: at what I've got. This is how we can do.
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  Speaker 2: But what about longevity? Because in doing what I did
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  Speaker 2: when it came to preventing the erosion on that ninety
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  Speaker 2: five foot drop, my vision wasn't nineteen ninety two. That
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  Speaker 2: vision was two thousand and thirty five, two thousand and forty.
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  Speaker 2: If I didn't do something in nineteen ninety two to
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  Speaker 2: prevent that erosion from expanding, then the longevity would have suffered.
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  Speaker 2: And I do wonder that when I look at so
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  Speaker 2: many of these works of art in people's backyards or
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  Speaker 2: around their forest, and how they allowed the forest to
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  Speaker 2: become a part of their life. The mind mind mind
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  Speaker 2: type of thing. Were they thinking about longevity? When you
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  Speaker 2: walk into a forest, a state park, maybe something in
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  Speaker 2: your own county, or maybe even a national park, Yellowstone
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  Speaker 2: National Park, Glacier, wherever you travel, they are thinking about longevity.
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  Speaker 2: You can physically see how their future is controlled. When
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  Speaker 2: there would be wildfires in Yellowstone National Park, did those
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  Speaker 2: forest rangers say, well, that's it, I'm out of here.
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  Speaker 2: It's gone, it burned up. No, they put their focus
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  Speaker 2: on longevity. And I do wonder that as I walk
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  Speaker 2: through this forest today, and I do wonder about longevity.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for being a part of the conversation.