Listen. Set aside your binoculars, life list, notepad, camera, and listen. Quiet and sitting among stately white stems, close your eyes and extend a finger to count each distinct sound.

Rivers are all about renewal. No matter how we dam them, divert them, shunt them through concrete or steel, they renew themselves eventually. Rivers replenish.

After destruction always comes renewal. The Phoenix doesn't rise from the verdant forest but from the ash.

In nature, renewal happens everywhere, on both vast and short timescales.

We have this remarkable quality in our cranium that is useful to try to understand as best we can how these things work. Our curiosity, our deep desire to learn about things around us.