To make the experience even more distinct it helps to immediately compare the plant you have just felt with something else, so, after the tree, find something else that captures your attention, perhaps a blade of grass or a small flowering plant or even a stone. Focus on it and ask yourself, How does it feel? Again, an intimation of mood or feeling will emerge, one that is different from the tree. Yet, it, too, will possess that livingness, that unique difference, however slight it is, in feeling from the manmade things you perceived earlier.
