It’s easy to believe, isn’t it? There is magic in the forest. Human civilizations have moved further and further from living within it, marking clear borders between organized, familiar, human territory and the unknown, wild one. It’s not so far back in the history when a forest was almost a reality, a plane of existence of its own.
The forests have been portrayed as evil and good, luring the traveler astray and lost, or helping one to hide from their followers, bringing solutions to problems through magical creatures and events. It was the unknown: anything could happen, and did. It was easy to believe when the forests were as uncharted as space and there could have been anything in their depths.
These days most of the fear has gone with the diminished state of unknown and all there is left is the lingering sense of magic that comes not from dread, but the feel of life. When you walk into a forest and close your eyes, you are just as surrounded by a full ecosystem of growth and life all around you as if you were diving deep in the sea. You swim through it as it continues its steady (Read more…)
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