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Speaker 2: Hi, it's Louis Wanier. I'm calling in for a row Collins.

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Speaker 1: Ooh, I love the way you pronounce your last name.

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I would have never gone that direction. Wow. Is it French?

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What is it?

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Speaker 3: It's with its French?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's beautiful.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Now, how do we transfer that to somebody who's going

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to be going through Barnes and Noble or even shopping

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on Amazon so they can say, you should see who

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I'm reading today, Louise Wanna.

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Speaker 2: It's one y A W A N N I E R.

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But the most important thing is the name of the.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it is Yeah. Tree spirits around the world. Now

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you're speaking my street when you have a title like

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that on the outside of your book. Because I live

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in a forest here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. We

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planted seventeen hundred trees in nineteen ninety seven, and this

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forest is my life. So I instantly became connected to

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your book.

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Speaker 3: That's amazing. What got you to do that?

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Speaker 1: I think it's because I'm from Montana and when I

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came into this area, I saw that the trees were sick,

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and in my heart I felt like, Okay, what do

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you want to do about it. You have the power

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to bring more North Carolina trees into this area. Do

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not go to a home depot or Low's and buy

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candy coated trees. You've got to make it natural. And

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you should see all the beautiful wildlife that is here

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because we did keep it natural.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, that's amazing, really amazing.

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Speaker 2: Well, if there's an opportunity for me to come and

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read in schools in that area, oh, I have to

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figure that out.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, we are Tree City usas they call us,

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So we need to get you here to do something

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like that. All right, So now what was your connection

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to it all? I mean what were because I mean,

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trees are one of the greatest storytellers of all time,

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as are rocks. But I mean your focus is on

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tree spirits around the world.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean for me, as a little girl growing up

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in London, I was in an area which had a

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lot of trees, and I don't know why, but I

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just started seeing.

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Speaker 3: For me, the trees kind of came alive.

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Speaker 2: I started seeing or imagining what I'm now calling tree spirits.

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I don't think I articulated that way myself, but my

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whole life and more and more as i've as I

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you know, traveled around the world, I just started taking

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a lot of photographs and I found myself taking a

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lot of photographs of what.

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Speaker 3: I see in the trees.

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Speaker 2: And the journey has been to realize that other children

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see and delight in discovery and seeing and imagining the

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different spirits that are there.

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Speaker 3: And it becomes a way to.

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Speaker 2: I guess, touch nature really fully and to come really present.

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Speaker 3: So for me, it's just been very nourishing.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, because one of the eye opening experiences that

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I went through was to the fact that, you know,

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just because you've got the tree above the ground, have

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you ever looked beneath the ground to see what's going

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on down there with the fung guy? Because these trees

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need that fung guy, and those mushrooms in order to

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communicate with other trees and so and so. Yeah, you're right.

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When children go in and they learn more about the trees,

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all of a sudden, it's about the soil. All of

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a sudden, it's about the history of the land that

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you're walking upon. I mean, there's so much involved, all

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because of the tree spirit.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And I also say to the children, what is

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really special about trees is.

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Speaker 3: That we need each other.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we breathe the trees, and the trees

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breathe us, so we breathe out.

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Speaker 1: Do you believe in the theory of you know, because

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we can stare at the sky and see cloud formations

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all day and if you weren't there, you missed out

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on a great cloud formation. But with a tree, the

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way it's formed, it's always going to be there. And

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you can bring your friends back to it and say,

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see what I mean, there it is. Do you see it?

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Speaker 3: Well, yes, and no. It's there for many, many years.

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Speaker 2: I have a few of the trees in the book

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that I've been back to visit, and they do change.

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Speaker 3: They do because trees grow just like we grow.

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Speaker 2: Right, But the basic the basic formations and spirits are there.

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So what's really fun also, I think is that the

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book teaches children that we all see things differently. And

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one of the things that Tilly, who's securious, smells from

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the first book Tree Spirits she goes then on this

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trip around the world is she makes little comments as

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we go through and go to different countries and meet

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different spirits, but.

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Speaker 3: She keeps asking what do you see?

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Speaker 2: Because when I read with children in the schools, they

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all see different things.

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Speaker 1: That's so interesting that you bring that up, because you're

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absolutely right. In fact, I was going to ask you

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about Tilly to find out if we're going to start

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seeing Tilly on t shirts as well as writing instruments

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and things like that, because it's such a great marketing tool.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. I think Tilly is going to have a

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life of her own.

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Speaker 2: But you know, we're just at the beginning here now

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with the book has only come up a couple of

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weeks ago, so we're looking forward to having everyone meet

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Tilly and take a trip.

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Speaker 3: Around the world with her.

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Speaker 2: So are she visits actually ten different lands, and we

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go around the world, and we go across six continents,

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Oh my god. And she teaches you little things about

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the trees in the different countries. Like one of the

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trees we visit, for example, is in Palma Majorca, which

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is one of the two places in the book. I've

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not been to myself, but my cousin sent the photograph

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of the grand olive tree in the center of the

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town in Palma Majorca, and it's actually the oldest olive

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tree in the world as far as I understand, it's enormous,

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all kinds of it definitely has more than the one

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spirit that I see, because as I share it with children,

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they often see five, six, ten different ones.

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Speaker 1: I got to share something with you because I think

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you're going to understand more about this and we've got it.

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We've got to spread that that energy to those that go, oh,

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it's just a tree, chop it down. It's a weed,

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because go ahead, go ahead. Yesterday, what happened was is

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that all of the people were returning to the gaza

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area and a man turns to the news camera and

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he says, they took away my trees. I fell to

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my knees because I mean I literally was like going,

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wait a second. You know, all around the world, like

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you're expressing inside this book, trees are not just an

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American thing. It's around the world.

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Speaker 2: It is around the world, and trees are what we breathe.

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Trees breathe in the carbon dioxide that we breathe out,

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and we breathe in the oxygen that they breathe out.

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Speaker 3: Trees are crucial for humanity, for our life.

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Speaker 1: Please do not move. We'll be right back with Louise

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one A coming up next. The name of her book,

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Tree Spirits Around the World. Photographer and ya author Louise

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one A. I love the fact that that you're gearing

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it toward the young readers, and the reason being is

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because I think that's where tomorrow is there. If we

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don't get them to start talking about it and get

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back to an arbor day or something like that. Oh

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my god. I mean I think that's my first love

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in life was that there's going to be a tree

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here one day. Really, I don't believe you, and then

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all of a sudden it becomes something.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Sometimes, Also it's fun to grow up with a tree.

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I mean, just as we grow up with different book series,

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we can grow up with a tree. I planted a

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ginko tree maybe almost fifteen years ago, and now it's

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a big, tall tree that has seasons along with the

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seasons of the year, but it started out as a

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tiny sprig. And I think, you know, we need to

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spend more time with the trees.

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Speaker 1: I got to ask you this, then, Louise, because when

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you're talking about a tree that's been with you for

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so long, how do you deal personally when it's time

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to prune the trees? Because That's what I'm doing right now.

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And I do sit with my trees, and this is

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the martial artist coming out in me. I will ah,

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I will ask the tree, can I please give you

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a haircut? Can I please? Because I don't want the

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winter to come to break you at your trunk. I

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want to get rid of this this heavyweight right now

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so that we can be together for more than just

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Speaker 2: Well, we all need to have adjustments, don't we. We

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need to cut our hair, we need to through our hair,

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we need to exercise our bodies.

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Speaker 3: Though.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think, what did the trees say to

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you when you ask them? Because I do think that

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we can hear their answers.

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Speaker 1: I feel a vibration and I sit there and I say,

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you're so insane. I go no, I swear to God,

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I feel a vibration that's like when I walk down

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because we have a ninety five foot drop from the

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front all the way back to the back of the

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forest before he hit the stream. And so every one

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of those are They were my six inch seedlings and

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they're now twenty five to thirty feet tall. Those are

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my babies, right.

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Speaker 2: Well, you're helping them to grow so that they can

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Speaker 1: But it has to start with you too, because I

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believe that the seed provides the paper, which provides the

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imagination an opportunity to escape. Therefore, that paper is there,

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we teach it to a child, and now we've got

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more seeds in the ground for a new tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: And I think that the beginnings of the imagination is

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also the beginnings of the stories, which is the beginnings

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of creating all the possibilities for our lives. I don't

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want to sound too corny here, but.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's not corny.

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Speaker 2: The most important thing is to have children put their

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screens away. In fact, some teachers call this the antidote

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to screen time. Yeah, but it's a way of you know,

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because the book asks a lot of open ended questions.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot.

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Speaker 2: It enables a child to travel in many possible directions.

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Speaker 1: Well, don't you think the rhyming also, it should be

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included in that because we all, I mean, it doesn't

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matter what age you are, whether you know you get

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into rap music or soul or top forty, people still

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like listening to lyrics, and you provide those lyrics inside

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these pages.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. Yes, that's true.

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Speaker 2: And for me it's a I mean, it's just fun, right,

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it's fun to And now every time I look at

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a tree, a new rhyme is coming coming towards.

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Speaker 1: So now, now do you is there something I know

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you said you're in the beginning process of this, but

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at the same time, I really feel like there's a

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there's a John Lennon moment here where you could take

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all of these photographs and the rhyming and put it

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inside galleries that travel across the country.

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Speaker 2: I would certainly love to do that, and I'm I'm

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fingers crossed one day we'll have that opportunity.

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Speaker 3: That is a goal.

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Speaker 1: Wow. See, I love where you've got this vision and

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you're doing with it. So you also bring activation, which

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I'm sure you're planting inside these schools.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that is what I'm intending. But we'll see. We

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just don't know, one little step at a time.

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Speaker 1: But when you go to those schools, because I mean,

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that's one of the things that I've always put a

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lot of concentration on when it comes to students and writing.

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And I realize that we're there so they'll read, but

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at the same time, I also want to teach them

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how to write. And that's what I feel from this book, Louise,

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is the fact that you're not just saying, here is

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this brilliant story, but you know you too can do this.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's a very very important thing. I leave them

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an activity sheet there.

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Speaker 2: It's downloadable from tree spiritsbook dot com and it's free.

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Speaker 3: To all the schools.

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Speaker 2: But there's an activity sheet which also encourages them that

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follows up the book and more information about where you

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can buy.

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Speaker 3: The book is also at tree spiritsbook dot com.

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Speaker 1: You're going to think I'm a freak, but I have

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written about this and I've put it on iHeartRadio a

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million times. I do not believe that we have the

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most beautiful part of the tree as human beings. I

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think the most beautiful part is beneath the soil, and

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I would love to know more about that rooting system

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because it's doing something down there that we're not seeing

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up here.

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Speaker 2: Well, what I understand is that it's helping the trees

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to communicate and actually support each other as community. Scientists

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start learning more and more about that. And I have

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also run into an artist who has taken recordings of

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the trees, big tall redwood trees in northern California, and he.

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Speaker 3: Shared those with me. I can hear the trees talking,

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if you will.

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Speaker 2: There's definitely more about trees that we don't yet understand,

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and there's more about all and so many species in

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our planet that we don't yet understand fully. And that's

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why we need more and more girls and boys and

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boys and girls to grow up and become scientists.

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Speaker 1: Also, that's so interesting that you bring that up, because

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I've written about that a lot as well. Because I

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hear voices, I hear music, and I will sit there

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and I will do the research trying to figure out

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why is it that I do this? And one of

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the questions that always comes up in my studies is

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that is that it'll say how many trees are you

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surrounded by? Now? Because you're picking up on frequencies that

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the trees are picking up on and they're passing it forward.

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So you believe in that theory too.

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Speaker 3: I do.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing. It's you know, I just wish we could

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respect him even more instead of buzz on these little

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monkeys down because you know they're beautiful monkeys.

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Speaker 3: We need to grow our trees. Yeah too.

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Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about what

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you're doing? I realize this is the beginning steps, But

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you know what, though, I know I'll be talking to

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you in ten twenty five years from now and we're

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gonna and we're still gonna be talking about trees and

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all the lessons that you're learning.

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Speaker 3: Thank you well if you will.

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Speaker 2: The best place is to either go to bookshop dot org,

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which sells the book and helps all the independent booksellers.

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They share their profits with the independent booksellers, or to

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go to our work upsite Tree Spirits book all one

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word dot com and there are a number of different

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resources and links and other information, and there is included

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a number of videos of children who've experienced the book

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and their response to the book.

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Speaker 3: It's under the reviews page.

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Speaker 1: What's your favorite part of the tree to photograph. Is

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it the roots? Is it the first branch that comes out?

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Is it or not? In the tree? Is it something

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at the very top, because you know that when that

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leaf falls in the fall, that to me is what

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I call the silent dance. And they dance so beautifully

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as they fall to the soil.

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Speaker 3: I love the way you're expressing it. For me.

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Speaker 2: It's the spirit that's speaking with me. But they're not

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in every tree, but I do find them in so

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many trees.

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Speaker 1: Wow, I love where your heart is. I am so

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glad that you've released this book.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you, and thank you for bringing me

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to help tell more people about it.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's so helpful.

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Speaker 1: It's what it's all about. If we don't come together

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as a community and help share with people that you know,

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being a tree hugger is one thing, but being a

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tree lover is another.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. I'll come back anytime. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today?

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Speaker 3: Okay, I will thank you