I asked the woods this:
How do you want me to love you?
From then on, I just followed that lead. Years before, I’d heard a man, John Lee, talk about the wonder of that question within a human relationship, the good it could do. To no longer crowbar your own sense of how that should look onto another. To actually take a breath and enquire.
⚘ Martin Shaw, Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass