nature perspective series: wolf
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nature perspective series: wolf

For thousands of years we traveled in bonded packs that fiercely protected each other, for a lone wolf will die but the pack will survive. We gracefully traversed the wide-open expanse of land, enjoying limitless freedom to range as far as our legs could carry us. At night the symphony of our collective calls would carry through woods, valleys and hills, echoing for all to hear.

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nature perspective series: soil
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nature perspective series: soil

I host a wide array of life within the darkness, a whole web of life living and breathing just beneath the surface. I am a part of a sacred dance that has taken place since life began, a life-giving exchange where energy flows back and forth between the above and below, a cycle which has no beginning or end. I lovingly cradle the Earth’s plants in a nurturing embrace, protecting their winding system of roots in the safety of my darkness.

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Nature perspective series: bison
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Nature perspective series: bison

No other animal could adapt as well as we did, our very existence is so connected to the land that there did not seem to be a time when we were not roaming across it. Our strength and resilience allowed my ancestors to blanket the prairies and survive the various conditions they encountered, creating a powerful and plentiful herd that appeared unshakable.

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Nature Perspective Series: River
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Nature Perspective Series: River

Through my many cycles, with their ebbs and flows, I hum along to the rhythm of life and put my mark on the land. I have the power to carve stone and erode soils or grow swollen with water and break free from my well-worn path to move across the surface, but when my strength is respected, I provide more than I take away.

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Nature Perspective Series: Tree
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Nature Perspective Series: Tree

My purpose has always been known, to make my home within the Earth, our life-giving mother, and be the sturdy support to her children. We are the elders of this family, the ones with cracked and wrinkled lines marking our bodies, the ones who have borne witness to the patterns of life and death.

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