Wild Places

I have spent a lot of time in some of the Wild Places of the world and I never really thought much about how those places felt, or if they ever thought about anything.  But there is some almost-magnetic attraction that keeps

pulling me back to them and I know that I am not alone.  I have met some of you there.   I suspect many of us share knowledge we try to ignore because it does not seem to fit the world in which we think we live.

Now I wonder even more.  Do the Wild Places have Emotions?  How would we know what they feel?  Can we feel those emotions ourselves?  How can we describe them?  Can we establish a relationship between ourselves and them?

Is the realm of Thought apparent in the Wild Places?  How can we describe our encounter with Wild Places thinking?  How does our own personal thought process change in the Wild Places?

Keep in mind that Wild Places exist on great beaches, on rocky shores, high on mountaintops, and in green prairie grasses, but their Wild seeds lie scattered everywhere.  Wild Places  can be found in animals, in insects, in grass and trees and rock and stone and even in the air.  You can find a Wild Place in a park, by a waterway, even in a yard.  When you find one, even for just a moment, how do you feel?  How does it feel?  What do you think?  What do you think it thinks?

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