Canon 700D
18-55mm
f/5
1/250 sec
ISO -100
A man was paving a new asphalt road. But before he finished, a crowd of children ran along the road, leaving marks on the entire hardening surface. The neighbor who heard his curses rebuked him: "Vasya, I thought you love children." “I love them,” he answered. Abstract, but not specific. ”
It is very easy to love people abstractly, the real problem grows in the concrete. Until we love human beings - concrete, real human beings - all our love for trees and birds is fake, just fake.
If we can love people, only then will a space grow in our minds where we can love birds, trees, mountains; but it is after. If we cannot penetrate a reality that is so close, then how can we penetrate a reality that is far away? How can we unite with the rock? - we don’t have a common language. Either we must become a rock, or a rock must become a human being. Otherwise, this distance is very large, unconnected. Connect it first with the person.
Is it possible to love a tree?If we recognize trees in human beings - only then; we will see birds in human beings - only then, because each of us has already been all this, he still bears the imprints of the Kingdom of Plants and the Kingdom of Animals in his subconscious. We were once a stone, a tree, a bird, an animal. We were all of this, and all this experience is still within us. The only way to connect to an external tree is to connect to a tree that is inside a human being, i.e. to love all your Nature.
Love yourself! Take the risk, be brave. Go deeper into your Essence, and soon you will find that man is not just a human being; man is a human being plus all existence, because a human being is the visible peak of evolution.
Have you sometimes felt in a woman that she is a cat? Have you ever looked into the eyes of a woman and feel the cat inside? Not being a cat, no woman can be a woman. And you will find a female there. And the same thing happens with a man - you will find a wolf.
All this exists in man, man has evolved through it. It is the same as each of us was a child, then became a young man; do you think your childhood has completely disappeared? You can grow old - youth just disappeared from you? She's here, you got to another layer. Cut the tree down and you will find a layer on a layer in the tree. This is how the age of a tree is determined: if a tree is sixty years old, then it has sixty layers. Every year it changes the bark and a new layer grows.
If you penetrate deep into your being, you will find layers like in a tree. The deeper you go, the more you discover strange things. Each of us is a small world that includes all the Realms of Nature. You will not be able to say: "I will love trees, not human beings." Then your love of trees will be false, you approached them incorrectly. First they must be loved in human beings, first they must be found in humans. Only then will you love each particular tree, only then will you love each specific person.