​What’s the point of singing in nature?

The experience of singing among the trees is one that has the potential to deepen our connection to the land, and also to ourselves, since much of nature is a mirror of us.
 
How so?
 
It’s easy to think of forests as pacific, beautiful, expansive, and awesome, since they often elicit those states in us. Just like humans, plants and trees have that potential for beauty, gentleness, creativity, and must also be aware of their survival. Plants must defend against potential predators, such as beetles, worms and other insects.
 
Plants are equipped with immune systems that produce chemicals to defend against pathogens, some have spiky thistles and needles along their stems and branches, or take shapes, in order to make them unappealing or inedible to prey.
 
In their quiet way, they say yes or no.
 
In each one of us, is the potential for tenderness and bad-assery, to be un-defended and to protect.
 
In these times where we need to stay woke, we sing to honor all available apt responses within us. Sometimes, “no” is the deepest kind of love.