The trees will tell you

Words and photographs © Niels Devisscher. All rights reserved.

Ancient stories tell of hollows in the trunk of trees as gateways to the otherworld. In British folklore, peering into tree holes could transport a person into the fairy realm or cast visions of the spirit world. All across the globe — from the Yggdrasil or World Tree in Norse mythology to the Banyan Tree in Indian mythology, a tree is seen as the mediator between the vertical planes of existence, connecting the upper and underworld. There is something profound and eternal about trees that have always captured the human imagination. 

When the world of man-made things
Of human civilization and
The separation it imposes
Feels too heavy
May you find peace in the forest
Of your dreams
Among the pines and cedar trees
Where life spills over
With poetic possibility
And the symbiotic profusion
Of a world always seeking to mend
Loose ends
Into luscious harmony