Atman and Robin Speak for the Trees and All of Nature

Everything is Connected

“Forest Blue”, original oil on canvas, Robin Motzer, All Rights Reserved

Nature has significant positive effects: creates peace, beauty, unity, community, health and connects us with something greater than ourselves.

Mother trees nurture their young, connect with other trees and seedlings, which allow four times greater success. Trees’ complex systems send information into the network and kin. Defense signals protect against stresses when injured and dying, and increase resilience for all.

Limbs above and roots below the soil act as antennas, sharing information-communications, cooperating with each other in relationships, while transporting carbon, water, and nutrition. Infinite biological pathways allow multiple trees to function as a single organism. Removal or death of one tree too many and the whole system collapses.

Safeguarding trees and plants, which have a mutual protection effect for each other, and us. Trees protect us from heat, neutralize pollution, add carbon in the soil, partner with fungal networks, mycelium and create oxygen for all of life.

Nature is part of the solution: Let’s choose to live in harmony with nature so that we may thrive and prosper. We owe it to the plant life that bring us not only food, but also imagination, transformation, beauty and spiritual fulfillment.

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What we do to nature, we do to ourselves. You are nature. We are nature.

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May the wildlands within be connected with something Greater than yourself. May you connect and protect your true nature, your atman, and the nature that is part of this beautiful world. We all have an opportunity to Be the Blessing: At One with atman, Self, Soul. Life is magical, is a gift and we can choose to live in Bliss!

Plant a tree, pollinator plants, wildflowers, adopt an animal, help a child…connect with your loved ones and your community. Everything is connected and the world needs you.

Enjoy this week’s essay, Atman and Robin Speak for the Trees and All of Nature; my original art: Forest Blue, and my poem: Health is Wealth: Everything is Connected.

Health is Wealth: Everything is Connected 

Death is happening to our waters and lands, 
Once protected is now in greed’s hands.
From gatherer to herder, 
To mass incarceration to murder.
Agendas, consumption and control-
To restore the enslaved, first liberate your soul.
Live simply, eat plants not animals, 
Free yourself –Compassion is the new capital.
Minds, bodies and spirits heal,
Stop engaging in animal slavery for dairy and veal.
Tying and confining in spaces so small-
Innocent animals unable to move at all-
Their babies are stolen, tortured and killed-
Why ingest trauma when plants can build: 
Health, wealth and peace in the world!
Vote with your dollars -serve and act locally, 
Your actions effect all- empathize vocally.
What’s good for the land and animals is good for humans,
Purity and Kindness increases wellness and acumen.
Align your values and make a pact,
We are all nature and that is a scientific fact.

Life is brief on this exquisite planet—Do Good, in Beauty and Truth! In honor of Ronnie Cummins, world leader in regenerative farming. His legacy lives on with his extensive work. To learn more, please visit: organicconsumers; viaorganica.org/; regenerationinternational.org/; and, regenerationinternational.org/billion-agave-project