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Place Poem: "To The Unseeable Animal" by Wendell Berry
Tuesday, 3 February, 2026

I’ve always bristled at the old expression about the tree in the woods — that if it falls, but nobody’s around to hear it, can we even say with certainty that it fell?I realize it’s an epistemological puzzle, a thought exercise rather than a truly open question. My issue with it stems from a bit of indignation on behalf of the tree, many of which fall (or get unceremoniously bulldozed) every day without near anybody hearing about them, despite all we know that they do for us.Thankfully, I’ve recently come across not one but two beautiful pieces of writing — one poem, and one song — that don’t just offer justice and acknowledgement to the unwitnessed beings of the world, but celebrate them as uniquely beautiful.- "To The Unseeable Animal", by Wendell Berry- "A Tree Falls", by Annika Bennett (Spotify/Apple Music) Get full access to You Are Here at youarehere.substack.com/subscribe