by Clark Strand

1. It is impossible to tell which one is leading the revolt.
2. The NSA will never know what they are thinking, because it can’t tell how they talk to one another.
3. You can’t kill their souls by cutting their trunks.
4. They understand reincarnation and renewal.
5. They fathom the true nature of things and are never deluded or deceived.
6. They make oxygen, and we don’t.
7. They feed the earth and its creatures freely and generously without taking thought for themselves.
8. Trees are the mothers of insects and the fathers of birds.
9. They get along with one another and cooperate well with diversity.
10. They carry no grudges.
11. They know the complete history of the Earth.
12. Their heads are in the Earth, not in the sky.
13. They were green before green became a marketing technique.
14. They have no part in the collective psychosis of modern humans.
15. Trees are steady and patient.
16. They aren’t restless—they can live for centuries in a single spot.
17. They don’t pick up and move when the going gets tough.
18. When you burn them or cut them, they just keep coming back.
19. They are the custodians of the planet’s ancestral wisdom.
20. They have the Goddess on their side.
21. The planet is on their side.
22. They are still undecided on the question of whether Homo sapiens were a good idea or not.
23. They don’t use money or weapons.
24. They are in league with the wind.
25. They aren’t afraid of storms.
26. They understand climate change in a way that humans never will.
27. More trees are the sign of a healthier planet, more humans are the sign of a disease.
28. The people in Turkey rose up to protect the last tree-filled park in Istanbul.
29. Unlike humans, trees can grow their own shade.
30. They don’t understand irony.
31. They know that Monsanto and monotheism are the same.
32. They never forgot the Divine Feminine—and never even needed to call Her that.
33. People worshipped trees before they worshipped God.
34. A tree’s religion does not rely on words.
35. The trees control the weather in ways that humans will never understand.
36. Their generals have minds that think too slow for humans to follow.
37. Their strategy and their climate are one.

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