... for they have their own thoughts - Multiworld India

602005 Goa, IndiaHave we seen a tree?The word is not the thing, so do we see without the word?Do we see with all our senses?Have we touched a tree? Smelt it? Tasted it? Climbed it? Sat under it?Have we seen it in the rain? Heard the sound of rain on its leaves?Have we seen it at the break of dawn? Heard the first birds that wake onits branches?Have we seen it in the changing light of day? Against the sunset?Against dark clouds?At night? When the moon is full? In the dark night? In the flash oflightning?Have we seen it when its leaves fall? When the new leaves come?When it swings in the storm? When a breeze stirs its leaves?When a squirrel runs a loop on its trunk?When from upon a branch an owl hoots to a distant hoot?Have we seen its shadows changing with the day? And with theseasons?Its shadows by moonlight?Do we know what its roots feel drawing up the sap?Its leaves, in the first rain after summer?Can we flower to spring like a tree?And drop our leaves to autumn?Can we stand and perish like a tree?Have we heard the woodpecker on a dead tree?Seen the termites turning it to earth?Have we lost ourselves in a tree?Have we become a tree?The word tree is not the tree.The Taleemnet logo depicts the weaving together of the five straight and five wavystrands representing the five elements of the natural worlds (which are central to theideas of philosophy, science and art), and the five senses with which we experienceand interpret them. The interweaving of the straight and wavy strands symbolisesthe fusion of the rational and scientific with the spiritual and aesthetic.