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Trees

The Religion Of The Forest

By Sylvia

The trees overshadow us in their leaves of joy and delight. Their natural colors of green, red, yellow, orange, and purple fill our eyes with wonder and thought of natures natural beauty. The ancient trunks, branches, and broaches that grow from the ground up and horizontally makes us dream of the different ways and designs these plants grow from. The mystical sounds they make when the wind carries through their leaves and vines, like chimes and bells ringing softly through the air. The ferns would ever so calmly shade the other plants when the sun comes to show off it glory with it’s glimmering gold and yellow waves. A luscious green grass swept across the ground, and would glitter and gleam when it had the morning dew on it. The sky was amazing, for it would show the most beautiful blue. It was a tropical reef bed calm with wings in the sky. The one mystery we all want to know is how humans came to be. The answer is from one lovely large tree, an oak, I presume. It had begun to die slowly from her old age. You see, in this place where The Great Oak lived the water was once crystal clear with no germs, for bacteria would not allow doing any harm. The earth had millions of flowers with all the types in the world, but there was no real active life to help make the world even better than it was, because The Great Oak was not able to create much more life, for her life was almost over. So she made birds and bugs and bears and lions, turtles and lizards and snakes, frogs and fish. She made more and more and more animals. All with one drop from her sap for each creature she made. Soon enough she made four humans each at the age of about seventeen. She made them too old by accident, and they never learned to be very creative and show their true imaginations. For they matured too fast and never acted silly or had fun in small things that where unimportant. Instead of learning the meaning of enjoyment they were very greedy and fussy. They used to be vegetarians until the killed some of the animals and ate them. The animals they killed never reproduced and that is why some animals are extinct. They wanted clothes so they first took leaves that fell on the ground, then they started picking live leaves and branches and hurting the trees, and the most evil was they took animal feathers, fur, and even skinned them for clothes. They even cut down trees to make their “homes.” They didn’t even realize the trees were their homes to protect them. The Great Oak had no way of stopping them. Soon there children became just like them. Cruel, envious of everything, and not one bit regretful for their actions. The children and their parents started to make factories, and power plants and then started to litter and pollute. The only way to try and stop and punish them was to use nature’s forces. That is why we have tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, lightning, wild fires, earthquakes, volcanoes, and plenty of diseases. The earth is trying to stop humans for making the earth a worse place. Now the days we live in we do not think of trees like humans. We think they can’t speak, but we are just not listening. We say they are material for us to use, but we were the creations of the trees. We say they are natures wonders and don’t mean it truly, but we used to think of them as so much more than just wonders. They used to be our sanctuaries, our resources, and everything we need to live. So we can help the earth from getting any worse, by fixing it up to bring back all the ancient wonders and beauty. We can bring back the extinct, if we clear up the problems and become equal and reunite with our nature and it’s animals. We can finally live in peace if we just could earn back the earth’s respect and get one more chance to bring our world in happiness again.