Why so many food wrappers plastic bottles, grocery bags, random papers, and unknown pieces of junk in the woods?
Please be aware of your waste and the effect it has on others, including other species. Those that must remain rooted, especially.
As the wrappers and junk degrade, the elements used leach into soil and water, our direct source of sustenance, and indirectly, your source of sustenance. For we are all connected!
We trees and rooted beings take up our nutrients from the soil, but we can’t sort out the harmful from the healthy.
Plus, think of this! it makes our surroundings and yours ugly, toxic, unpleasant. I did not sign up for this life to act as a dumpster!
Wake up! Trash in the woods is just a tiny part of the disrespect for our home planet and unawareness of the connections between all living things.
When humans pollute and foul their own nest, poison their own air and water, they do the same harm to those life forms that support their very existence on this planet.
From the trees that shade and shelter you, that hold the soil from erosion, the tiny insects that buzz and pollinate your food supply, those that become food for the birds, those creatures of tooth and claw that keep other populations in check, those rooted ones that filter the air, those soaring birds that clean up the dead carcasses of fallen animals, those mammals that graze and ruminate – we all depend on each other.
Ask Grandmother Cottonwood 