We are crawling on our knees to get what we want which makes mother proud to see us succeed, but our wants and goals are decisions based on decisions, not decisions based on the archetypal constant thoughout human experience that guides us collectively. We are moving away from our connection with eachother. Our intereaction used to be tribal and based on us. Now they have become based on media/materials that are not neccesary but self indulgent leisure or power. I like to think that the trees wanting to be haunted is the opportunity to become so old that they will become haunted, instead of loud babies(us) harvesting more than we need before some of the oldest living things on earth have a chance to become haunted. Maybe the water is warm but it is toxic and causing him to shiver. The memories fade because with every passing generation our detachment from our Mother Earth becomes more normal and our increasingly toxic environment is becoming normal. When compared with something bad, something a little worse is not horrible, but to compare where we are now to where we were before the industrial revolution would shock the frog out of the slowly heated water before it boils.

Liyn, How is taking only what you need different from saving the Earth? Too many people think benevolent actions will save the world. Maybe It's the absence of malevolent actions that is needed; but its easy to be a "hero" for doing something. It is much more difficult and more effective to abstain from actions that are toxic to this existance. And couldn't this be one of life's most important lessons? Greed can be placed near the top of the list of sins. Wait, it is. Greed, one of the 7 deadly sins. Our greed may destroy the world. Can you see the connection now?