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 growing up on the plains, I saw only what humans could create there. Not what
 life was abound. When I visited the forests in the mountains, I thought
 smaller scale, more focused, more distributed. Back home, among the grasses,
 there was always more grass.
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 @user-1027 
 
 Beautiful! I miss that kind of country. The prairie is my home, but the forest
 I find myself in is nice for different reasons.
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--- #2 fediverse/2007 ---
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 @user-246 
 
 Perhaps... But take heart! For new trails will ever emerge, placed below the
 feet of those who will mark them.
 
 "Leave no trace" unless you're a trailblazer. 
 
 And by that I mean unless you're a forest ranger, for they are the stewards of
 the land.
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--- #3 messages/130 ---
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 Last night I dreamt of the gravestones that bore their owner's mind.
 
 I dreamt of a life well lived, and how it was taken from them.
 
 [something more that I forgot because I don't have a prophecy transcriber]
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--- #4 messages/624 ---
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 On the plains, it's easier to pass through a large country than a small one.
 In forested or mountainous areas, the opposite is true - they are large, wild,
 and untamed, and thus difficult to get through.
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 if you live far enough away, they can build a telescope of arbitrary
 magnification. the sky is vast, there's birds and bugs about. huh what's that
 over there, a thing that was placed there just for me
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--- #6 fediverse/1491 ---
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 @user-883 @user-1007 
 
 yeah probably, I've never been so I wouldn't know how to survive in that
 terrain. It's mostly grassland right? Some trees maybe? Pretty sure Idaho is
 the mountain one
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--- #7 messages/433 ---
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 What if wind was fake and its really the ghost of the waves from the shore?
 What if trees moved on their own, to gesture at the feelings around them? What
 if the sky was home to the clouds, and we who look upward are given the treat
 to know them?
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--- #8 fediverse/2163 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 ... trail beautification is trail maintenance, and without trails we would
 lose our tether to nature's truest reality.
 
 Thank goodness forest rangers are almost exclusively people who care immensely
 about natural spaces.
 
 Otherwise the profit motive would sneak in...
 
 I would not be as I am if I didn't hike up a mountain with my best friend
 while on LSD. If I did it again, on the same mountain, with the same friend, I
 would remember every thing that happened on that day and every thought I
 thought. Alas, circumstance.
 
 But yeah building trails teaches you about erosion, and carpentry, and fluid
 dynamics, and like... everything else that they earn badges for.
 
 Like what a report card should be.
 
 "Little Timmy definitely understands algebra" awards, presented to those who
 are worthy. Their worth, of course, being determined by trails set before them
 and solved in their own desired paths through.
 
 Like, writing an essay vs performing an essay. Or researching at a library vs
 building a powerpoint pre
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--- #9 fediverse/1672 ---
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 @user-1037 
 
 speaking from the perspective of a witch, the land does not care what lines we
 draw in the sand. Lines are a human thing.
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--- #10 fediverse/1589 ---
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 When I first came to the fediverse it felt like a breath of fresh air -
 finally, I could speak to the world!
 
 I don't know what happened, but somehow now it feels like I only speak to
 like, 30 people
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--- #11 fediverse/112 ---
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 I live through the moments where I find a folder of stuff I made that I forgot
 about and I can go back and see it for the first time.
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--- #12 fediverse/844 ---
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 @user-217 
 
 Cast upon a pale blue background, the brilliant reflections appeared as
 endless rainbows without arches - but cast upon a world so distant it was
 infinite - like sunlight radiating from the darkness of the surrounding night.
 The perspective of a dewdrop, resting on a stone in a forest, the world must
 seem so infinite - stretching out beyond comprehension, beyond the limits of
 what may be - massive yet constant, changing as it seethed.
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--- #13 fediverse/5350 ---
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 honestly we should be building cities in the most boring locations, not the
 most beautiful.
 
 like below the crust.
 
 or space.
 
 the surface is a pleasuredome, why waste it on scrubland and turf?
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--- #14 fediverse/2065 ---
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 @user-1156 
 
 I wonder why some areas are black and some are that beautiful yellow color?
 Perhaps a different mineral composition? Could that provide insight into the
 nature of how Venus was formed?
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 Some people think history was the beginning of time and like... Nah humans
 existed for hundreds of thousands of years before that. Ancient Egypt or
 whatever is basically modern compared to most of the humans who have ever
 lived.
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--- #16 fediverse/108 ---
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 @user-95 I'm also fond of "I can't know", for things that exist beyond our
 finite existence. For example, the perspective of another, for all it's
 intrinsic value. Being too quick to trust, though, is an easy path to follow.
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--- #17 fediverse/1536 ---
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 @Frank @ClimateChangeAnxiety 
 
 In establishing the National Parks, the government sought to preserve nature,
 and did not see indigenous people as part of nature. As if we humans are not
 animals that contribute to an ecosystem, but some separate thing that is
 anathema to life.
 
 how strange, that they would see their own kind that way. Perhaps they would
 rather their perceptions of the land be untainted by human hands, or perhaps
 they just didn't want to think about minorities anymore. How cruel, to spit
 salt into the wound.
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--- #18 fediverse/1764 ---
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 Okay okay hear me out - but what if instead of  pumping oil out of the ground,
 we shoved a bunch of tree trunks down there and let them marinate for a few
 thousand years
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 @user-192 
 
 yeeeesh that sounds like a hornets nest. impossible to untangle, like a rats
 nest! I prefer my homes like a robin's nest, neat, orderly, and made to design.
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--- #20 fediverse/1603 ---
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 @user-1037 
 
 I made a picture, hope it helps! I swear I didn't hallucinate this thing but
 it might be less cool than I thought and I might have misremembered and made
 up parts of it, I can't tell because it was such a short memory : (
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