Tell It to Trees Rivers cannot hear trees as they (the rivers) flow through a forest of never-minds with untied shoe laces. While they listen for messages from headwaters and contemplate possible explanations for silence of the forest, they (the trees) bend precariously toward their own untied shoes. It doesn’t matter what sentient beings are there to listen, they (the sentient beings) hear little as rivers flow and trees bend… because sounds they make (the rivers and the trees) are...
