Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast.

I'm Emanuel Von Lee, executive editor of Emergence Magazine.

Our podcast features in-depth interviews, narrated essays, and stories, exploring the threads,

connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality.

Kara Moses is a writer and educator.

Her work focuses on land management, social change, and nature connection.

She has written for The Guardian, The Ecologist, and BBC Wildlife.

In this essay, Kara visits a primordial old-growth forest in Poland. Here she meets a herd of bison,

encounters loggers and feld trees, tracks wolves, and observes how a healthy forest is in a constant cycle of death and rebirth. Upon returning to her home and the sheep-grazed moors of whales, she asks how this

example of regeneration can be healing. Not just for the desolated Welsh landscape, she wants to

rewild, but for herself.

My body is frozen, my eyes wide.

I can see through the trees, shifting shadowy shapes.

Muscular hunks of dark black that seem to suck in all light that touches them.

I can feel myself being drawn into a place that is somehow beyond time and space. Bison. Uncompromising bulk. Magnificent majestic majestic beasts with a powerful,

unapologetic presence. Enormous hulking shoulders and bulging neck,

covered in a dark, shaggy coat like a royal robe,

in stark disproportion to the velvet-ferred, slim-line rear quarters.

Atop the bullish head, striking horns curve and point towards each other,

as if in self-reference, intensifying

the animal's profound presence. There are at least 15 of them, including some young, grazing

quietly. Peering from behind a tree so as not to disturb them, I realise I'm holding my breath. I exhale and shift my

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