Take a step back for a moment. Imagine your favorite dinosaur—or some other terrestrial creature if the saurians are not to your personal taste. Think of that animal carefully stepping through the evening forest, the low-angled glow of the sun sending shafts of orange and gold through the shadowy rows of tree trunks. That animal is moving through a grove of living things, not just knowable as individual plants but lives that are literally intertwined from canopy to runs sunken into the ground. Leaf-munching insects, lichen dotting the bark, fungus growing along the roots, and more, discernible
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jfc this is written so beautifully. I'm sitting here echoing with her thoughts.
