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Hey, thanks for being a part
of the conversation. This is Forest Stories.

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I am the Poet in the Forest, a children's series that I pinned

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out in the nineteen nineties. Now, none of it would be possible if

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it wasn't for this forest right here
in South Charlotte, North Carolina. I

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talk about it so much that I
thought maybe it's time that you get to

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know what has inspired me for thirty
years. Thanks for being a part of

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the conversation. Welcome back to the
forest. I just got out of a

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conversation with Philipe Cousteau our Echo challenge
dot org bringing some biodiversity to everywhere,

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not just this forest in South Charlotte, but everywhere. We've got a beekeeper,

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We've got people that are creating these
above ground gardens. There's so much

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biodiversity that's going on inside this forest, and it can serve as a positive

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place for so many others. A
forest has so many different edges to it.

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One particular edge, Kenon Luma's backyard
still part of the forest. It's

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just that they've put up a large
wooden fence around it. And I understand

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because inside that fence it's so peaceful
and beautiful in the way of how Mother

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Nature speaks to each and every one
of us with this vibration. It's a

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peace garden with a gigantic Buddha,
so many different global artifacts that are in

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this area, and a path,
a path that goes in so many different

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directions. And so when we're walking
on that path with Jazzy inside Ken and

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Luma's backyard, which is still part
of the forest, we sit there and

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we feel the positive vibrations that this
forest continuously gives to others. You can

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have biodiversity. Biodiversity in aside a
forest or inside your own city gives you

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an opportunity to understand the atmosphere of
what is going on in your surroundings.

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And it's a valuable too. So
that's why I always try to share stories

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about this forest to maybe inspire you
that when you go and you buy a

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little pine that you want to put
on your desk or give away as a

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gift, put it in the earth, share it with Mother Nature. Lord

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knows, we take such advantage of
everything that nature is willing to share.

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But the question is what are we
giving back to Mother Nature? And maybe

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that's what this walk is about today. The biodiversity that can be everywhere.

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That you can have a forest just
like this if you take the time to

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grow with it. But this isn't
just something that happened overnight. We planted

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the seventeen hundred trees in nineteen ninety
seven. It's twenty twenty four. So

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it was fun to sit down and
have a conversation with Philippe Cousteau and talk

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about this forest. Now it's your
turn, write your stories and share them.

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Hey, thanks for being a part
of the conversation.