The idea of plants (i.e. nature) having consciousness, once considered impossible, is now seriously debated. Is stillness, a state of nature, self-aware?

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stillness, not in terms

absolute

there may be passing clouds

leaves stirring, birdsong

stillness

which comes on a summer day

storm and aftermath

in abeyance

a reprieve from the opposite of stillness

stillness asks my consciousness

my awareness

to note it, appreciate it, so i once thought

nature’s consciousness, awareness

of its own beauty, negates the need for—me