The Lyrics From Ernie's Forest Chapter 412 Beware Of The Human

A squirrel is driving Jazzie my Pointer crazy. Jazzie wants none of it. But why? She has her reasons and it's to offer the playful squirrel a clearer picture of what it's like to live this close to the humane lifestyle.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ernie is my blue Crown conyer. For over thirty two years,
he's overlooked this forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina.
Every day Ernie sits in his beautiful home, overlooking the trees,
the nearby lake, and every bit of the wildlife strolling
through such an amazing piece of land. Ernie and I
share the same vision. It's this forest. We both look
into the trees and study the earth below. There's something

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very spiritual here. I put all my trust and skills
as a student into what he's willing to share with me.
These aren't my words, these are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest,
chapter number four hundred and twelve, February fourth, twenty twenty four.
A squirrel is driving Jazzy my pointer absolutely crazy. The

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bushy tailed ambush tree jumper seems to want to be
friends with my little girl, but she wants nothing to
do with such a relationship. I will say, in my
thirty two years, within this collection of trees, streams, and
a single lake, the wildlife shows absolutely no fear. I
mean even the deer they stand only feet from our
walking path. The hawks in the sky, they find joy

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in being present each new morning the turtles are constantly visible,
and this squirrel seems to want to chum up with
my little girl Jazzy, But she's acting like a leader
of the natural law, reminding them that getting too close
to the human is quite harmful to their place in nature.
Humans like to kill trees and put poison in the soil.

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Humans have large blades that shave what should be the
tall grass. And look at how many pipes and electrical
lines are buried beneath the ground. Please, mister squirrel, return
to your real world. Do you ever sit there and
wonder what we are doing to nature? I know that
you can watch the Nature Channel and you can see
all these different shows on TV about how man is

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trying to save the whale and trying to save the
polar bear. But that's only this much, just a pinch
or maybe even a mustard seed of people that are
physically doing that. What are we, as everyday people well
doing to nature? What have we done? What about all
this bad weather that seems to be consuming the entire planet?
Is this man made? I don't want to create an

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argument here, but what are we doing today? That could
be much different if we wouldn't have done it? Yesterday.
Just something to think about in everything that you are doing,
are you truly activating what is natural? Or are you
trying to have the home depot Low's lawn? If you
step into this forest here. The reason why it looks

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the way that it does is because in nineteen ninety
seven I heard it in my heart. Stop trying to
create the perfect yard, Stop trying to be perfect in anything.
Be natural. It is all around us. And it was
all because I read a story about this area on
the map. It was once filled with wild grapes, wild roses,

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and people would come here and laugh and smile and
tell jokes. And I went, what no way? And the
moment I stopped shaving the grass, everything grew back. What
would happen in your life if you quit shaving nature?
I'm Maril. These aren't my words. These are the lyrics

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from Ernie's Forest