Three Trees: So What?

Three Trees…
What does this mean to me?
Despite encroachment of humanity into the wild, resulting in a myriad of conflicts to symbioses, black bears and mountain lions roaming backyards (a black bear ran too fastly past the three trees for me to photograph it, but it was there nonetheless and allthemore the other evening, a large rumbling black bear eating Himalayan black berries in plethora throughout the neighborhood), there is an equal encroachment of the wild into humanity. Perhaps part of the wild and humanity is assimilated (seen in the black bear example as bears depending on humans for food and on bears killing naïve humans who think them harmless and cute) by each, and perhaps humanity is willing now to accept human deaths as collateral damage in the wild’s encroachment into humanity in order to ensure that the wild is not completely exterminated. I do not know, only that I see bits of each in the other, especially telling is the wild encroaching into humanity when trials of famous people become mild to unruly circuses of throngs of admirers and fans to haters and stalkers fighting one another over opinions! The media has fast become the seagulls, vultures or rats of humanity, and parallels abound, no matter the profession. This is not too strange since humanity is part of the earth and so inseparable from it, even whilst away from it in space. Who or what are the three trees then? The three trees are themselves firstly, and secondly, they represent the wild, humanity and their interrelationship as a third rapidly evolving and deteriorating connection, which demonstrates through the precarious and tenable nature of their geographical positions. One tree further back and these three trees would no longer be, cut down with the previous cuttings behind them. Yet, they live on as a testament to the wild’s right for a seat at the banquet of the living, as does every growing entity that survives the ruthless machinery of development. Ruthless and necessary, just not necessary to the extremes of laying waste to an entire mountainside like developers did in a nearby Oregonian town. When the responsible county looked the other way for a month, the developers in question razed an entire mountainside and put in roads for a subdivision. The only problem is the vast rainfall in winter months, and over the years, with no ground cover, no trees to root the dirt firmly to the mountain, I predict huge erosion problems and possible mudslides in that neighborhood. I would assume purchasers of such executive homes with a view might be wise enough to plant as many trees as possible as quickly as possible, but, even these preventative measures may not be enough to avert disaster. The larger problem is that this mountainside overlooks the city below it, and if it goes in a large mucky river, that mudslide may unleash upon the entire town such devastation not seen since the last tsunami. The three trees represent this bit of wild as well. For when humanity neglects to see past its initial actions: building a community, and sees not into the future that is then co-created: creating a perfect opportunity for wholesale destruction—even decades down the road as in southern California—by eliminating the very system that keeps the soil on the mountain: the trees and other plants, then humanity exerts the powers of its own shadowy unconscious of the wild back onto itself. The three trees too represent this for me, as well as a litany of other notions related.