The Appalachians
The Appalachians
Listen when they speak.
When these mountains speak
all I hear is forever talk
about molten fire,
strange creatures,
endless fauna,
swirling west winds,
and the shrugging off
of glacial overcoats.
These mountains are gentle,
broken and calmed by the eons,
and now welcoming to us all.
The trees know them better,
sinking their roots deep below
the rolling surface of their ridges.
The mighty oak tells me,
We're all just another epoch
in the life of a mountain.
My father considered a walk among the mountains
as the equivalent of churchgoing.
~ Aldous Huxley
