Is there a beginning or an end? Is everything connected to what came before and what will come after?
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Does a tree begin
at the crow sitting
on the branch, or seed,
or roots, or trunk, or
the scuttling
squirrel, or the flowers
that turn to fruit, to turn
to seed, which washes ashore?
How do we know
if the tree has a beginning, middle
and end?
Nature Conscious is a series built from reader contributions. It is a collection of fieldnotes, moments or brief encounters with the wild, expressed through words, art, music, photographs or poetry. The series is curated by author and guest editor Aasheesh Pittie.
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Aditi Puttige
enjoys the in-betweens of research, drawing and writing, and exploring the forms they can take!
