“Nature protects itself, and sometimes it leads to the death of a few of its parts,” the boy said, answering the man in charge’s thoughts. “It speaks to every part of itself, all it needs from us is our protection,” the boy continued.

The four men kept quiet. Not even one of them was willing to disturb the boy who spoke boldly about nature.

“The branches of the tree protect the birds from the lightning of the storms, but if a man hides his body underneath the tree while it’s raining, nature gives orders to the clouds to attack the tree and the man underneath the tree will automatically die,” he added, looking at the tall tree that his dogs were resting underneath.

“Does nature despise men?” the man in charge asked.

“No, nature does not despise men, but men are not fair to it,” the boy replied.

“So what is it that nature wants us to do?” one of the workers asked, still struggling to believe nature was breathing normally like humankind, but both the man in charge and the boy knew very well nature was not pleased with trees that were chopped down.

Instead of answering him, the boy just looked away from the scene.

“Our work is done here,” the man in charge told his men. “Tell them that nature is not pleased with how we destroy it,” he added.

Once again, nature told the boy how the man in charge stressed, for he would have to report and explain to his bosses why he had ceased cutting the forest.

“Don’t worry, nature will protect you,” the boy said to the man in charge, and touched his shoulder.

Nature protects people who protect it, the man in charge thought. He knew the boy could read his mind, for the boy was now speaking the language of nature. The boy knew the man in charge was troubled by his decisions, but he decided to say nothing.

Nature and the boy, the man in charge thought, and turned away to join his team.

The boy continued to walk with his dogs on the journey that was defined by nature in the world of the unknown. He knew well that the road that he was heading to might swallow him, but nature hardened his heart, which enabled him to push forward no matter how scary it was. He looked up and saw a flock of sparrows flying peacefully, but in the distance flew two that suddenly attacked one another. In a few minutes, one of the birds fell beside him. His main surprise was how two sparrows flying peacefully could attack each other, and he was puzzled by the one that managed to kill the other up in the air, where gravity does not have power.

Nature told the boy to pass the bird that fell from the sky; it also told him there was nothing that the boy could do to bring the bird back to life. Since the boy was told to do nothing, he just passed the dead bird and continued with his journey to the unknown. When he was miles away from the bird, nature told him to return to the bird, and the boy knew there was something nature wanted to teach him, so instead of arguing, he obeyed the voice of nature, because his soul was now one with nature’s soul.

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