I have always thought of all creatures – all organisms, really – as relations. Whether wandering alone in deep wilderness or just leaning against a tree growing beside an urban sidewalk, I have had no difficulty feeling, as if in dreamtime, the roots of our relatedness – ecologically, yes, but also with an overlay of the sacred, the holy.

~ Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Angle Oak, 1500 year old oak, South Carolina – photo by Strobie, bigstockphoto.com