The druid wandered the forest. He watched the movements of the animals and the cycles of the plants.
As he travelled, he did what he could to maintain the balance of life in the forest. He felled a tree here and planted a sapling there. He drove off predators in one territory and culled grazers in another. He passed no judgement, believing harmony to be the ultimate good and caring little for the individual lives he touched.
It wasn’t until he was cornered by a hungry mountain lion and had to fight for his life that he truly understood Nature.

“Forest – High Contrast” by (www.debabrata.info) debabrata is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

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