Rewilding A Forest | Artist and Poet Maria "Vildhjärta" Westerberg
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- Опубліковано 22 лют 2024
- This film is part of a series called "Something Beautiful for the World”, which is a collaboration between Reflections of Life, Campfire Stories and Happen Films. Watch all the films of the series here: • Something Beautiful fo...
Title: Once Upon a Forest
Created by: Campfire Stories
Synopsis: Maria was a romantic, animal-loving, dreamy child who, growing up, had a hard time conforming to the demands associated with the trajectory towards "a normal life". As a young adult she became depressed, and was encouraged by her therapist to go for walks in the forest. The myriad of funny-looking twigs and sticks she found along the way immediately put her on a path to recovery. Now, 25 years later, she's a celebrated "twig poet" whose art is shown in galleries throughout Sweden. When a climate related crisis strikes the forest where she lives and works, she's forced into a new type of creativity in order to save the place that once upon a time saved her.
Filmed in: Värmland, Sweden
Featuring: Maria "Vildhjärta" Westerberg & Johannes Söderqvist (vildhjarta.net/) and Martin Jentzen (www.jentzen.se/)
Produced, filmed and edited by: Mattias Olsson for Campfire Stories (www.campfire-stories.org/)
Sound mix: Boris Laible (www.borislaible.com/)
The films of the series "Something Beautiful for the World" explore how small acts of love and kindness have the potential to ripple out and change the world, touching hearts and minds in ways that we could never begin to imagine. We'll be sharing a total of 12 short films, from across five continents - releasing one per month for the whole year of 2024 - four from each filmmaker.
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A huge thank you to the following brilliant people, who gave so generously of their to time to help with translations, enabling us to provide subtitles for this film, in the following languages:
Bulgarian: Polina Stoyanova
Dutch: Karla Greven
English: Mattias Olsson
French: Amélie Macoin
German: Tanja Pütz
Indonesian: Ary Nuansa
Italian: Grazia Gironella
Polish: Anna Konieczna
Portuguese: Sibylle Steinpass
Slovakian: Zuzana Beračova
Slovenian: Jasmina Kovačič
Spanish: Patricia Aguirre
Swedish: Mattias Olsson - Фільми й анімація
This film is part of a series collaboration between three independent filmmakers - Reflections of Life, Campfire Stories and Happen Films. These films explore how small acts of love and kindness have the potential to ripple out and change the world, touching hearts and minds in ways that we could never begin to imagine.
We'll be sharing a total of 12 short films, from across five continents - releasing one per month for the whole year of 2024 - four from each filmmaker. Watch all of the films here: ua-cam.com/play/PLye1JIzaiQ6rKe40SkcSWqoC_sn4v_vIY.html
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Thank you!!!
LORD HOLY SPIRIT GOD JESUS CHRIST IT IS THE PERFECT TRUTH AND SALVATION ..
the natural world it is fallen spirit's impure and evil ...
Really cool therapy insight! ❤
What astonishing things people can accomplish if they have the opportunity to follow their hearts instead of society’s pressure to conform. Maria’s art is delightful and her mission is so important now.
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You don’t have this opportunity given to you. You take it for yourself 💚
@@camillapalmer82 I'm trying 😢
I wish more from groups like Extinction Rebellion would use their energy more wisely like this.
Actually DO SOMETHING.
This Is So Sad For Me To Watch..
What The Beetle Is Doing, And Such A Sweet Hearted Soul Suffer So Much.. Yet
The Legacy She Has Been Left In Understanding Is Far Greater.
Beautiful.
Yes, it helps a great deal to be independently wealthy.
"I think it's one of the reasons why so many of us are depressed, because we don't get space and a place and a job where we can be kind. I think it's one of the nice things with humans, we're really kind if we get the chance." ❤
I know ... Beautiful. I knew right away when she said that that it would have to be the film's ending :)
Clean drinking water without Chlorine or Floride, UV is best also protects against Crypto. Bug. Organic or wild food.
It's beautiful as a
Vividly Soul and Spirit is influenced by Love in her Thinking and Feeling and Acting, because she united her Heart and Brain.
Living a sacred Flow.
Love it.
Best Greetings
from Germany
Beate
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Amazing Art and great Reportage (Video) of her Service for Nature
and Human Dignity.
This is one of the most beautiful films about one of the most beautiful people I ever saw. I love her art, her ideas, her thoughts about life and nature.
Thank you!
It's comforting to know that there are people like this lady out there.
Yes, and inspiring!
Right! Her energy is beautiful 🌿
What I take when I see people like this is "I could do that, I can do that, and I will do that."
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Watching this I suddenly understood how ok it is to be sad under fluorescent lights and yellow walls. And how returning to the forest is returning to our ecosystem. Thank you to Maria, Johannes and Campfire Stories for this beautiful video.
I cry my eyes out every damn day. And yet I wouldn't be capable of changing my life like some other people do, for example living like this because requires braveness and to be intelligent above limit, which I'm not and feel frustrated even more coz when we don't change things keep going in same circle
@valentinamamazza744 think small, start with small steps, be more gentle, allow yourself to be happy, every day one small thing .. a smile to someone you love but also a smile to someone you don't know (well). Share positivity. Share optimism. Don't expect every day is a good day, don't blame yourself for a bad day or a bad moment, let the good things build up from 1 to 100 to 300 to 2200.
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Don’t look at others to compare yourself.
Let others inspire you but be yourself.
You have your beautiful life.
Your life is a gift to you.
See your life and live it.
I wish you strength and courage to be yourself 🐚
@@valentinamamazza744 one day you will be so frustrated that you will have to do it.
I am already really frustrated. But I find strength in some people coz I know you guys understand the way I feel even if we have different reactions@@roksanaskrobisz389obviously not always easy to express myself through a simple post, but I hope there's a deeper connection between all of us
Imagine how beautiful the planet and all of life would be if every person lived and acted and believed like Maria... such a beautiful, selfless, respectful soul. I want to be like her when I grow up... I want all people to be like her when they grow up. Thank you for sharing.
I have learned to make a hot beverage, bring a box of tissue, and turn off my phone when I watch these videos. I have cried so much this past year with climate anxiety, and felt so alone. I’m autistic and nature is the only place I find peace with my mind. Today on my walk the honey bees were out. We should have snow right now. I’m so scared. But this soul and her friends have given me hope. Thank you for sharing her story with us. 💚🌳🌏
You're so welcome. And thank you for sharing a little bit of yours too!
Whether climate change is natural cycles, man made, a bit of both or none of these... healthy ecosystems are the buffer for the change that will always occurs. Creating your own healthy native ecosystem is so rewarding a wonderful therapy to cure against the inaction of our commercially controlled leaders.
Sorry to hear you've been feeling so bad. Hope you feel better and you get the opportunity to make a difference in your area, even if only small.
Dont worry, all is well and we are safe ❤ repeat this with me: All is well and I am safe 😊 #abrahamhicks
I think it’s very arrogant of man to think we are the sole reason and only reason for the changing climate. Remember the earth is a living breathing thing, like us, like all living things. Are you the same, every day? Next week? Next year? Ten years from now? Well, neither will the earth be. Our lives are like a drop of water in the ocean. We can do better, be better stewards, but don’t despair. Enjoy the short time we have on earth to enjoy what our creator has given us.
I don’t understand why human became a threat to this planet simply for superficial possessions and desires. I often feel overwhelmed and ashamed for being a human and living in this society that’s built upon human’s fear. But this lady showed us how kind and beautiful mankind can be. Really thank you for making this film. ❤
You are so welcome! And thank you for your contribution!
They are not humans, they are unfeeling anyone with emotion or conscious with so little innerstaning of our world the ignorance and greed of these devils to unalienable are animals and cut are trees down, us with conscious have to fight back against it, it's not humans who are destroying are world, its the ones the control the world, us everyday humans don't like what's happening to our world but we are to afraid to fight back because we feel alone, we all need to come together and fight again this one enemy
What she says about humans not getting the chance to be kind is deep wisdom and I am profoundly affected by it. I hope I carry this always and it helps me and those around me from now on.
Thank you all for bringing this wonderful film to us.
This woman is so beautiful outside and inside. So sensitive and caring. She's not arrogant, she cares and try to understand how she could help nature restore herself not just using the human way. She's a forest witch without knowing it ❤
She's not a witch she's a healer of the forest
C'est une fée. Une magicienne. 💚🌿💚
“I just don’t smear the world with it” - the most appropriate metaphor I’ve heard yet
I started to move baby oak trees out of my yard because I hated to see oak trees die. I also started adding flowers to the woods that I know belong there because I saw them here as a child ... The wood poppies immediately took hold. Last year I added coral bells (which i have seen in the woods, not just at Lowe's!). This film gives me so many more ideas. I have begun to realize that biodiversity isneeded. It is already biodiverse where I live, but still not enough.
That's great! Keep up the good work!
This lady ... Is... LOVE!
"can you abandonned someone that helped you when you were down...and now it's broken and I am not down anymore..." This is absolutely the way we all shall think about nature✨
Nature is the perfect healer and all parts of the natural environment can become as family if you let them - this is what I think 😊
This was a depression story a therapy story a ecological story a womens story a regrowth story a story of hope but most of all for me it was a love story
Yes, it's a beautiful story and video. ❤
Based on what she said, it seems like her depression began when she was taught to stop thinking as a child (when she was a child). And she was TOLD what was important in life, what to strive for, and what would make her happy. When she actually knew it all along, as a child.
“So many woodpeckers
That was your work, sister,
to undo the damage done
by the earlier generations
of your family.
There is no better work ❤
You are truly truly Blessed.
I'm a fanatic wildlife/pollinator gardener in the central California foothills, and since I retired, I've been planting hundreds of trees/shrubs/plants in ever increasing numbers on my 10 acres. The results have been astounding, with a large increase of wildlife. I also have a huge pond that I've been filling as needed during our dry years, and the amount of life it supports is magical-- frogs, dragonflies, fish, etc. I put out tons of birdseed every year, and those birds are preyed on by many different falcons, hawks, and others. I can't imagine not living in the country-- every day is filled with joy! Plus, I have 3 dogs that I adore......... So, paradise! Thanks for sharing!
I so so agree with the thought that so many of us just simply aren't given the space, and occupation to be ourselves...to be kind, to be true.. and it hurts. And we are hurting..
She melted me with her last statement ! What an amazing woman ! Beautiful story and Beautiful lessons ! Her art is fantastic ! This film is so much more than just replanting trees ! 🌿🌲🍁🍂
❤️🔥This has touched the depths of my soul ! ❤️🔥
Thank you so much!
Maria and her companion have done something quite marvellous that if left undisturbed will live on and benefit others for hundreds of years after we have all passed. Blessings to both of these amazing people. I live among great areas of monoculture both trees and grass with only the benefit being to those who make money from such barren landscapes. When I walk in an old forest I feel such relief from the stresses of the world. It is almost as if the old trees stand guardian and protect those who wander within their realm..
Yes I feel the same, and I’m devastated when men chop down our trees, we are all responsible to take care of the forests the wildlife. The men who chop them down they don’t own the forest it’s not theirs to destroy, God owns it all, He gave it to us to share it and take care of it. To safe guard it? there is a judgment coming, those who ruin or do harm to the world will pay a terrible price. And it’s coming fast, the second coming of Christ to destroy the wicked and those who destroy the earth. It’s coming !!!
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Beautiful project and legacy. We wiped out most woodland planting creatures - our atonement and sentence is to perform their function - accelerate the recovery of ecosystems - we can be natures seeds spreaders too. Many humans around the world are awakening to this calling all at once.....everyone should do this in their garden, farms, parks, balconies.
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Hey, I'm Irish, I clicked through to your UT channel and saw your drone footage of forests in westport. If I'm in the area, would love to go ancient foresting with someone knowledgeable and passionate about our trees, if that is you hit me up. We could make a group of it.
@@magicalmya Let me know when youre around Mya
This short film drew tears to my eyes. I feel like my heart cracked open. Thank you Mia for your unwavering love for the forest and for following your heart and inspiration fiercely. Thank you, biologists, for your hopeful reframing and explanation that the forest WANTS to live, and will. Thank you, Mattias, for your creative gift to us all! Refreshed.
You are so welcome! 💚💚💚
Thank you......🙏 thank you.......🙏. thank you........🙏 thank you............🙏 a breath of beautiful fresh air and joyful tears..... 🌳 💖
Such a beautiful lady and companion! A truly magical place. And a true poetic soul….thank you.🙏🏻💕
May the Earth's Abundant Blessings be with you now and always🙏💖@@Parianparlay
You are so welcome! 💚
It always surprises me that in our healing we stumble on a purpose. ❤💚💚
I'm Australian. The fairy folk have been whispering 'Mattias' to me all week. I don't know any Mattias. Now it makes sense. I'm at the end of a very long and painful cycle and the house i rent is being sold. I may not be able to afford to rent in town. I have a feeling my children and i will be moving out of town. If i am to restore forest, it will have to restore me. I'm recovering from chronic fatigue in to of a long list of illnesses. I am already much better than i was, so it seems doable.
Thank you 💙
Thank you! And I hope your situation resolves itself in the best possible way!
Ask a forest to answer your call ❤
I hope your housing gets sorted out. It's so important to have a safe place for yourself and your children. Take care, Julia🌺
All the best wishes for you...
You are on the right path then, enjoyyy ❤🎉
She is a example what a human really is and needs, his own nature in nature you find everything and yourself and your purpose ❣️✨🤍
Yes, I agree! Thank you!
@@campfire-storiesthanks to you for doing your purpose ✨🌄
The earth energy is in transition. Humans are all awakening and have a joice. We are all from the same source 🤍✨
I love her Facebook approach. Her whole approach to living makes sense to me. Beautiful carvings. This is a life
Living in a Suburb of a major city l feel home sick watching this and so proud of her efforts, kindness and love of nature...a move back to true home is on the horizon this is inspiring 💚
Soooo profoundly beautiful. Thank YOU for making this film. And to you Maria for your love and kindness to the forest and the trees and the world we all share
Thank you!
Thank you so much Maria. Bless you❤
A beautiful story unfolding with enchanting characters. It makes me happy seeing these people are in the world.
Thank you!
Sooo Beautiful. ❤ If only Mother Nature was everyone's teacher. Thank you.🙏🌾
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LOVE this story Mattias. So deeply moving. And such a beautiful reminder of how we all have the power to make a difference in this world, through our thoughts and actions. So excited about this collaboration together with you, and all the wonderful stories that will be unfolding during the rest of this year ahead. Big love. Justine and Michael x
Stop it, I'm going to cry! :) You guys ... What an honour to be part of this project!
So wonderful to see people doing good in the world.
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Well, I was only about a minute in when I started to tear up. I live on the edge of a forest. I'm also an artist. Thank you for making this beautiful film, Matthias. And Maria, thank you for sharing your love of the Trees and for caring for them with all of your heart. 💚
This is beyond inspiring. The best thing I’ve seen in a long time here on UA-cam. It brought tears.
Living in the natural 🌎 creating a good place for the future. RESPECT
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I am very grateful that you didn't grow out of your wonderment and joy in life with love for the Earth and the way of understanding the importance of nature and peacefulness. ❤
“It’s not always the goal to reduce human impact… it a matter of what we do.”
This reached down deep to my soul and brought tears to my eyes.
its crazy how what we think a healthy forest looks like is completely different than a thriving forest, especially with native plants
This is beautifully documented. The foresters and timber industry not only clearcuts all around our 11 acres here in Oregon but then they also spray poisionous chemicals to "control" undergrowth, and so called pests. It is devastating and very hard to fight. Just one of the many broken parts of our broken system. Thank you for making this film❤ it is very important. Not giving up yet! In gratitude, Theresa
I'm glad to see an increase in these types of video and interest in like minded people! Thanks .
"If we lose all the universitys we lose nothing, but if we lose a forest, we lose everything". Bill mollison
Beautiful! What a remarkable woman is Maria. Such a joy to see the forest in the throes of rebirth. The wonder of nature 🙏
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This video has brought me to tears. You are a beautiful being. I don't know you but I love you for your healing help.
Kindness is our nature and within nature we develop it more and more. Such a beautiful soul and if it is if Maria is living a Fairy Tail. Thank you Mattias for this weekend gift. With love from Belgium.
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Thank you. Such thoughtful kindness, goodness, truth and beauty.
Thank you ! 💚
Thank you/Stor Tack Maria, Johannes and Mattias for this film. And to Martin Jentzen for his words:
"... people might come here for your art. But maybe they leave with the forest". I hope so! And I hope that many others do like Maria & Johannes.
Greeting and hug/Hälsning & kram från Värmland
Andrea
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This has impacted my soul so much. Tearful, joyful, hopeful, just overall amazing. I share her passion for the forest and respect her so very much. She’s living proof that beautiful souls exist. ❤
This is my solution 😊. I felt bad that I had to get rid of some tree seedlings in my pathway. Now I know were to move them, dankeschön. They will survive😅.
I just cried from the bottom of my heart ... i think she is a WONDERFUL Women and gives so much back to the forrest and he loves her❤❤THANK YOU 🙏🍀
This lovely woman has my heart.I am of the same thoughts. I love trees.🌲💚
The space to be kind
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What a wonderful motto
Beautuful Beautiful Maria, an angel on earth ❤
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Thank you.
A beautiful lifestyle. Lovely human beings in a forest.
A woman who understands my own heart ❤
Thank you Maria Westerberg for your wisdom, work and kind heart. I love your art❤. Thanks Mathias for the film.
I crave this way of life! This is so beautiful. Being surrounded by Woods and Nature heals a person. Thanks for sharing this meaningful story! ❤ 🌲 🌳 love your Art and cabin!
She's beautiful. I love her art, her curiosity, her heart.
I am a poet too. I have a kind of inherent fear of lonely people. Life seems to be forcing me into a lonely end. I am fearful of ending my final chapter in this way. This woman has found something to offset the fear. There are many diagnoses a doctor can give you that quite literally do not exist in one person in a forest. An example might be ADHD. Right at the top of the stack of man made-up conditions. The medicalisation of anxieties and living disorders. I can hear the anxiety in her voice, but it is sated by her forest and art. How fortunate her mother left all this wonderland for her. ❤
Beautiful ❤ the forest is our friend in so many ways, warm, inspiring, sheltering.
I'm just a Forest Lover!! It's my dream to spend time in the woods... and I love it in all that they contain: Pine trees, Tropical trees, Jaguars, Bear, Woodpeckers and so on...
Such a beautiful and sweet lady……Thank you!❤❤
You are so welcome!
What a beautiful, kind and gentel soul. Maria's story, the way she tells it, the look in her eyes and her deep connection with nature really touched me.
Thank you for sharing her journey with us, her wisdom and her spiritual insights.
May we all slow down from time to time to listen to wood peckers.
I can't explain how much this film means to me. It is truly what I see as my dream. To live in harmony with nature, and do my part to restore purity on this green Earth. My soul hath spoken, and let my prayers be heard! 💙🌿💫
Thank you for this short film. I felt so moved. I feel a deep connection to trees and woods and this really pulled at my heartstrings. Maria is inspirational in her kindness, acceptance and wisdom. I would love to visit one day.
So, thank you for having that depression 😊. I am so totaly in love with people like you Mia ❤. Thank you ❤
Maria you are a contagious miracle 🍀💚🌳
Brilliant film Matthias 🎉
Thank you so much! 💚
She is a beauty....she feels real life ...she is intuition
❤ some of us can feel that we are part of all of it...precious people
I can’t tell you how much I needed to see this film and beautiful lady who has such kindness and wisdom. I too have suffered with anxiety since childhood so I can relate to how deeply important it is to come back to yourself and re awaken in truth, acceptance and love for all the wonderful, healing nature that is actually on this planet we all think is so dreadful! It takes a certain stillness within oneself to truly be able to start to feel this again after an eternity of being numb and dulled down. Thank you so much for this film and thank you to the beautiful couple in it!
Blessings to her for being a caretaker of the land, instead of seeing it as purely something to take from or make money from. What a beautiful life she lives within nature's embrace ❤.
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I cried watching this and felt so many wonderful emotions thank you 🙏🏼
My heart ❤️
Such a beautiful soul and woman !
She is so naturally beautiful. She just has something that shines from within her.
This is a profound story... a voice for the wild that needs to be heard 💗🙏🌿Thank you so much for creating and sharing this work of art
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Maria what a lovely video. I always found peace walking in my forest listening and truly being in touch.Your art is beautiful you are in touch.❤🌲🌿
What a beautiful soul. This woman shines inside and out. So glad I came across this video!
I so feel you sister! I too am finally free to be ME out in the woods. NOTHING HAS HEALED ME MORE than stopping trying to fit 'into the box' and being embraced by Mother Earths nurturing empowering presence 🙏
Hi dear You are an incredible person. You are living your life with nature 😊 God bless you always
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I love the beauty of this film and the wisdom and strength of Maria. Her candor in describing her depression after being limited by sociological enforcers and influencers in her life calling her naive.
I love how she later returned to her inner wisdom, returned to the forest, returned home. And the result was peace, fulfillment, and actions for healing: healing the heart and mind, healing the monoculture forest.
Thank you Reflections of Life, Campfire Stories, and Happen Films :)
She is an example we should ALL follow. Much Praise to her Beautiful Soul ❤❤❤
Going into nature for me is like going into Gods garden, seeing all his creation all the flowers, all the sounds, its calming and wonderful all at once, seeing animals having young the way they have always done, gives me hope for the future, no demands from animals or flowers, no expectations, no comparing , no one telling me anything, its truly my solice. Beautiful inspiring film thank you so much for sharing, we do not have to be anything but ourselves God makes no mistakes in his design humans included.
Thats really something huge. How great we humans can be!
The sculptures are wonderful!
I agree. Love them!
It was apparant that she loved the forest, and unfortunately we cannot correct every wrong, but thank goodness for people like this lady who are trying their hardest.
I live in a Eucalyptus Forest in Australia and many of the trees in this forest pre-date White Settlement in this area, meaning, they are over 200 years old! The forest is so alive, so vibrant, so full of life, it is beautiful!
At one time, about 75 to 100 years ago, most of the trees here were cut down to stumps, presumably to try to graze sheep here, but the soil here is poor and doesn't grow grass very well. Some of the stumps died, but most of them sent out suckers and now those suckers are full grown trees, once again!
No matter what, Nature will win!
So beautiful beyond words. So much hope and life, thanks to the forest and all of nature and kindness showed by friends and people around! Sending love! 💚
Thank you for this spark of inspiration for what we can do around us. Maria has touched my heart after watching many of the trees die over the past few years. The beetles have killed most of the spruce here leaving portions of the forest bare. After spending the past few winters growing small trees in my home to replace them, I'm feeling much more hope that it will help restore the forest.
Wow. Always be true to yourself and regeneration will come. It is very healing. We all need to partake in biodiversity by planting native plants without herbicides nor pesticides. This will attract the right insects which help the animals and baby birds live. This is beautiful and is the aesthetics of nature, and we all need this, especially the future generation. ❤🌲🐦
Der Wald ist so unglaublich wertvoll🌲🌳ich liebe ihn❤
Dort findet man Seelenbalsam...
What a beautiful, heart-warming story. This is LOVE!
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In a world of homogenuous thinking, your films come out as fresh and thought provoking. We need more people to think like Maria. Happy to have stumbled upon your channel and I'm wondering why I've only recently discovered it as I've been a loyal subscriber of Happen Films for three or so years now. Kudos to all behind this collaboration. And thank you, Maria, for your profound insights.
What wonderful work they have done and continue to do… her art is beautiful… and I’ve always said that nature is the best artist… she has given new life to what she has found in her forest as artwork… without destroying anything.
I understand your connection to nature… I’m just saddened by how terribly we have treated nature. I hope we collectively will be smarter.
Wishing you Peace 🕊️ 🌜🌞🌛
You are doing it perfectly. We are all loving it the way it is. Don't let anyone to sneak in on your magic.
Gorgeous. Moving. Inspirational. I have never wanted to be a “tree hugger” more. Outside my windows I have 3 very grand giant sequoia trees in my yard, planted over 150 years ago. They do not belong here. But they remind me of the forest that I see in the distance… my own little forest. Last week someone posted a photo on FB (the other FB) of the tops my “my” trees… a bald eagle perched upon each top. Hope. Lovely film. And people. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this comments and for sharing a little bit about your sequoia! :)
Such a beautiful, inspiring and charming woman. ❤
Don't really know what to say. It is so nice to see someone doing something real for the nature. Her art works are so beautiful. She belongs to the forest. ❤
Thankyou because of you , I found me💜. “I just needed to be reminded of who I was as a little girl “ 💜woods
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Beautiful. thank you for sharing this. We are always looking for something outside of ourselves for answers but Maria said the most profound thing " we do not get the chance to be kind" Kindness is the most wonderful gift we can give to ourselves and others.
This made me cry. The compassion, humour and thoughtfulness. I feel so inspired by this lady. To grow, nurture and create. I felt so low today, yet this has brought me hope for my journey❤
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What a beautiful soul that lady is. A blessing to find a gentleman to share her life's breaths in working with the forest, it's inhabitants and the elemental spirits that reside there.
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