To our earliest forebears, the landscape was alive; everything had a soul, not just the people, animals, birds, fish and insects who lived in it, but every stream, mountain and boulder too. Perhaps the most powerful impression of an indwelling spirit was given by the trees that covered Europe, in amongst which dwelt people who came to revere the trees and see them as sacred, such as the Druids of the Celts, or even feel a sense of kinship with them.
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