Nature and Human Nature

After weeks and weeks of being with people, I who lives and is alone a radically large percentage of the time, am again alone with my own psyche in the wild forest. When a cheetah is engaged with another animal, focus and intensity are directed externally; it’s clear, strong, clean, clear. When cheetah is alone again the sitting and being and waiting and listening and chewing on grass resume. It’s a teeming terrain of life, big energies and forces everywhere to be listened into. Cheetah nature. Human nature. Nature. Me.

One Response to “Nature and Human Nature”

  1. Karen Nilsen's avatar Karen Nilsen Says:

    I love the example of the cheetah–they’re the manifestation of fluid animal grace. Replenish in your solitude–I find I love my solitude more and more as time goes by. Solitude is not always valued in our boisterous extraverted culture, but it’s so necessary.

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