This film is part of a series collaboration between three independent filmmakers - Reflections of Life, Campfire Stories and Happen Films. These films explore how small acts of love and kindness have the potential to ripple out and change the world, touching hearts and minds in ways that we could never begin to imagine. We'll be sharing a total of 12 short films, from across five continents - releasing one per month for the whole year of 2024 - four from each filmmaker. Watch all of the films here: ruclips.net/p/PLye1JIzaiQ6rKe40SkcSWqoC_sn4v_vIY Follow us on RUclips: Reflections of Life - www.youtube.com/@ReflectionsofLife Campfire Stories - www.youtube.com/@campfire-stories Happen Films - www.youtube.com/@happenfilms If you'd like to support us: Reflections of Life - www.patreon.com/reflectionsoflife Campfire Stories - www.patreon.com/mattiasolsson Happen Films - www.patreon.com/happenfilms
"I think it's one of the reasons why so many of us are depressed, because we don't get space and a place and a job where we can be kind. I think it's one of the nice things with humans, we're really kind if we get the chance." ❤
It's beautiful as a Vividly Soul and Spirit is influenced by Love in her Thinking and Feeling and Acting, because she united her Heart and Brain. Living a sacred Flow. Love it. Best Greetings from Germany Beate ❤ Amazing Art and great Reportage (Video) of her Service for Nature and Human Dignity.
We are depressed because we don't understand where we belong. At least this is my point. I'm trying to get help everywhere from anyone. I sometimes talk to much of myself to people hoping they will find the solution. The truth is we gotta listen to learn, the problem is when I ask questions to others trying to know more about that so I can get inspired the risk is being judges as nosey 😅 so need to be careful when approaching others lol
What astonishing things people can accomplish if they have the opportunity to follow their hearts instead of society’s pressure to conform. Maria’s art is delightful and her mission is so important now.
I wish more from groups like Extinction Rebellion would use their energy more wisely like this. Actually DO SOMETHING. This Is So Sad For Me To Watch.. What The Beetle Is Doing, And Such A Sweet Hearted Soul Suffer So Much.. Yet The Legacy She Has Been Left In Understanding Is Far Greater. Beautiful.
"can you abandonned someone that helped you when you were down...and now it's broken and I am not down anymore..." This is absolutely the way we all shall think about nature✨
I don’t understand why human became a threat to this planet simply for superficial possessions and desires. I often feel overwhelmed and ashamed for being a human and living in this society that’s built upon human’s fear. But this lady showed us how kind and beautiful mankind can be. Really thank you for making this film. ❤
They are not humans, they are unfeeling anyone with emotion or conscious with so little innerstaning of our world the ignorance and greed of these devils to unalienable are animals and cut are trees down, us with conscious have to fight back against it, it's not humans who are destroying are world, its the ones the control the world, us everyday humans don't like what's happening to our world but we are to afraid to fight back because we feel alone, we all need to come together and fight again this one enemy
Watching this I suddenly understood how ok it is to be sad under fluorescent lights and yellow walls. And how returning to the forest is returning to our ecosystem. Thank you to Maria, Johannes and Campfire Stories for this beautiful video.
I cry my eyes out every damn day. And yet I wouldn't be capable of changing my life like some other people do, for example living like this because requires braveness and to be intelligent above limit, which I'm not and feel frustrated even more coz when we don't change things keep going in same circle
@valentinamamazza744 think small, start with small steps, be more gentle, allow yourself to be happy, every day one small thing .. a smile to someone you love but also a smile to someone you don't know (well). Share positivity. Share optimism. Don't expect every day is a good day, don't blame yourself for a bad day or a bad moment, let the good things build up from 1 to 100 to 300 to 2200.
@@valentinamamazza744 Don’t look at others to compare yourself. Let others inspire you but be yourself. You have your beautiful life. Your life is a gift to you. See your life and live it. I wish you strength and courage to be yourself 🐚
I am already really frustrated. But I find strength in some people coz I know you guys understand the way I feel even if we have different reactions@roksanaskrobisz389obviously not always easy to express myself through a simple post, but I hope there's a deeper connection between all of us
@roksanaskrobisz389 Me right now. My fear of failure ended up making me feel near suicidal so now I'm pursuing the things I've been trying to escape. Can't believe I've wasted my time when I could have just started to begin with
I'm a fanatic wildlife/pollinator gardener in the central California foothills, and since I retired, I've been planting hundreds of trees/shrubs/plants in ever increasing numbers on my 10 acres. The results have been astounding, with a large increase of wildlife. I also have a huge pond that I've been filling as needed during our dry years, and the amount of life it supports is magical-- frogs, dragonflies, fish, etc. I put out tons of birdseed every year, and those birds are preyed on by many different falcons, hawks, and others. I can't imagine not living in the country-- every day is filled with joy! Plus, I have 3 dogs that I adore......... So, paradise! Thanks for sharing!
I have learned to make a hot beverage, bring a box of tissue, and turn off my phone when I watch these videos. I have cried so much this past year with climate anxiety, and felt so alone. I’m autistic and nature is the only place I find peace with my mind. Today on my walk the honey bees were out. We should have snow right now. I’m so scared. But this soul and her friends have given me hope. Thank you for sharing her story with us. 💚🌳🌏
Whether climate change is natural cycles, man made, a bit of both or none of these... healthy ecosystems are the buffer for the change that will always occurs. Creating your own healthy native ecosystem is so rewarding a wonderful therapy to cure against the inaction of our commercially controlled leaders.
@@Sup1719creation is ongoing and we are part of it, but our economic system has made us believe that we are kind of seperate from nature and creation as whole. We are not. And that is precisely why it matters what we do, it has an impact on where we as a species are heading. And right now there is a real chance that we as humans drop out of the ongoing evolutionary process. We need to realize that we are part of the whole, we are one with all other living beings, everything and everyone is interconnected.
This was a depression story a therapy story a ecological story a womens story a regrowth story a story of hope but most of all for me it was a love story
Based on what she said, it seems like her depression began when she was taught to stop thinking as a child (when she was a child). And she was TOLD what was important in life, what to strive for, and what would make her happy. When she actually knew it all along, as a child.
I started to move baby oak trees out of my yard because I hated to see oak trees die. I also started adding flowers to the woods that I know belong there because I saw them here as a child ... The wood poppies immediately took hold. Last year I added coral bells (which i have seen in the woods, not just at Lowe's!). This film gives me so many more ideas. I have begun to realize that biodiversity isneeded. It is already biodiverse where I live, but still not enough.
What she says about humans not getting the chance to be kind is deep wisdom and I am profoundly affected by it. I hope I carry this always and it helps me and those around me from now on. Thank you all for bringing this wonderful film to us.
This woman is so beautiful outside and inside. So sensitive and caring. She's not arrogant, she cares and try to understand how she could help nature restore herself not just using the human way. She's a forest witch without knowing it ❤
Maria, Thank you for spreading your depression with the trees so they could heal you. In return you are healing them. An old saying from the United Kingdom " Don't tell the trees, they'll tell the breeze and everybody will know." If you're in trouble, in need of help for what ever reason. Sit with a tree. It messages the Spirits that live above them by their leaves and Spirits below them by their roots. Sending help in all directions. Keep moving the answers are showing you the way. Earth Blessings and prayers.🌎
Soooo profoundly beautiful. Thank YOU for making this film. And to you Maria for your love and kindness to the forest and the trees and the world we all share
I'm Australian. The fairy folk have been whispering 'Mattias' to me all week. I don't know any Mattias. Now it makes sense. I'm at the end of a very long and painful cycle and the house i rent is being sold. I may not be able to afford to rent in town. I have a feeling my children and i will be moving out of town. If i am to restore forest, it will have to restore me. I'm recovering from chronic fatigue in to of a long list of illnesses. I am already much better than i was, so it seems doable. Thank you 💙
The trees have a purifying field. After my wife died and I was in post traumatic stress I created paths through forests in Ireland for months in Winter. I'm grateful to these trees for their love and purity.
This short film drew tears to my eyes. I feel like my heart cracked open. Thank you Mia for your unwavering love for the forest and for following your heart and inspiration fiercely. Thank you, biologists, for your hopeful reframing and explanation that the forest WANTS to live, and will. Thank you, Mattias, for your creative gift to us all! Refreshed.
Maria and her companion have done something quite marvellous that if left undisturbed will live on and benefit others for hundreds of years after we have all passed. Blessings to both of these amazing people. I live among great areas of monoculture both trees and grass with only the benefit being to those who make money from such barren landscapes. When I walk in an old forest I feel such relief from the stresses of the world. It is almost as if the old trees stand guardian and protect those who wander within their realm..
Yes I feel the same, and I’m devastated when men chop down our trees, we are all responsible to take care of the forests the wildlife. The men who chop them down they don’t own the forest it’s not theirs to destroy, God owns it all, He gave it to us to share it and take care of it. To safe guard it? there is a judgment coming, those who ruin or do harm to the world will pay a terrible price. And it’s coming fast, the second coming of Christ to destroy the wicked and those who destroy the earth. It’s coming !!!
I'm glad to see an increase in these types of video and interest in like minded people! Thanks . "If we lose all the universitys we lose nothing, but if we lose a forest, we lose everything". Bill mollison
I so so agree with the thought that so many of us just simply aren't given the space, and occupation to be ourselves...to be kind, to be true.. and it hurts. And we are hurting..
I live in a Eucalyptus Forest in Australia and many of the trees in this forest pre-date White Settlement in this area, meaning, they are over 200 years old! The forest is so alive, so vibrant, so full of life, it is beautiful! At one time, about 75 to 100 years ago, most of the trees here were cut down to stumps, presumably to try to graze sheep here, but the soil here is poor and doesn't grow grass very well. Some of the stumps died, but most of them sent out suckers and now those suckers are full grown trees, once again! No matter what, Nature will win!
YES!! A woman with a heart, a loving soul, and spirit that LISTENS to her in-born instinct! Her Face Books - I love it!!! As it should have always been...without giving away the rights to our lives, pictures, and stories! Good for her. Thank you for starting this series to restore our souls!
I am very grateful that you didn't grow out of your wonderment and joy in life with love for the Earth and the way of understanding the importance of nature and peacefulness. ❤
This is one of the most beautiful films about one of the most beautiful people I ever saw. I love her art, her ideas, her thoughts about life and nature.
I am a poet too. I have a kind of inherent fear of lonely people. Life seems to be forcing me into a lonely end. I am fearful of ending my final chapter in this way. This woman has found something to offset the fear. There are many diagnoses a doctor can give you that quite literally do not exist in one person in a forest. An example might be ADHD. Right at the top of the stack of man made-up conditions. The medicalisation of anxieties and living disorders. I can hear the anxiety in her voice, but it is sated by her forest and art. How fortunate her mother left all this wonderland for her. ❤
What a touching film, what a wonderful work and purpose to save trees and create such beautiful energy. Since my childhood I have loved all forests and especially over the years the nature of Sweden. Thank you for all your truth and love♥
"Its not always the goal to reduce human impact. It matters what we do." 👍💯💗🙏😁🥰 yessss!!!! We are the caretakers!! We can either uplift or harm. This woman is clearly uplifting the forest and doing it the way the forest prefers!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!! For anyone interested in learning more about how forests and trees work ibhighly recommend the book "the hidden life of trees" by Peter Wohlleben. Amazing. Wish everyone in the world could read it.💚🌳♾️😁🥰💗
Absolutely beautiful. Her philosophy, the forest, her partner in the work, her art, her choice to be herself. I think she is correct about not enough of us having the opportunity to be kind, which can be our essential nature. The Dalai Lama would be proud of her.
Thank you/Stor Tack Maria, Johannes and Mattias for this film. And to Martin Jentzen for his words: "... people might come here for your art. But maybe they leave with the forest". I hope so! And I hope that many others do like Maria & Johannes. Greeting and hug/Hälsning & kram från Värmland Andrea
Tha line about people come for your art but leave with tge forest. The way her partner touched her shows just how much this means for him to see her efforts recognised in the way she intended.
Well, I was only about a minute in when I started to tear up. I live on the edge of a forest. I'm also an artist. Thank you for making this beautiful film, Matthias. And Maria, thank you for sharing your love of the Trees and for caring for them with all of your heart. 💚
Living in a Suburb of a major city l feel home sick watching this and so proud of her efforts, kindness and love of nature...a move back to true home is on the horizon this is inspiring 💚
Oh my... I am crying so hard... I am 40 and started on the same "journey", I am just in the beginning, the first steps, you know. Now I know, it IS my way... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for sharing this movie... I am German, but my ancestors are partly from Sweden .. I belong there, I feel it. Some day I will come back. I promise.
Beautiful project and legacy. We wiped out most woodland planting creatures - our atonement and sentence is to perform their function - accelerate the recovery of ecosystems - we can be natures seeds spreaders too. Many humans around the world are awakening to this calling all at once.....everyone should do this in their garden, farms, parks, balconies.
Hey, I'm Irish, I clicked through to your UT channel and saw your drone footage of forests in westport. If I'm in the area, would love to go ancient foresting with someone knowledgeable and passionate about our trees, if that is you hit me up. We could make a group of it.
This is beautifully documented. The foresters and timber industry not only clearcuts all around our 11 acres here in Oregon but then they also spray poisionous chemicals to "control" undergrowth, and so called pests. It is devastating and very hard to fight. Just one of the many broken parts of our broken system. Thank you for making this film❤ it is very important. Not giving up yet! In gratitude, Theresa
Blessings to her for being a caretaker of the land, instead of seeing it as purely something to take from or make money from. What a beautiful life she lives within nature's embrace ❤.
I can relate when you said "your thoughts go out into your hands". We need to protect the forests. They are powerful and at the same time so fragile. Taking care of a special beautiful creation. We and the earth need more people like you ❤️🌹💐🌻🌺
LOVE this story Mattias. So deeply moving. And such a beautiful reminder of how we all have the power to make a difference in this world, through our thoughts and actions. So excited about this collaboration together with you, and all the wonderful stories that will be unfolding during the rest of this year ahead. Big love. Justine and Michael x
Face Book, "No one owns me, takes my rights or owns my work." This documentary filled my heART. . This is what it means to be a visionary. Nature is the place I come "home" to mySELF and can be away from the noise that has become our world. Thank you for sharing Maria's life, art and story
Kindness is our nature and within nature we develop it more and more. Such a beautiful soul and if it is if Maria is living a Fairy Tail. Thank you Mattias for this weekend gift. With love from Belgium.
Imagine how beautiful the planet and all of life would be if every person lived and acted and believed like Maria... such a beautiful, selfless, respectful soul. I want to be like her when I grow up... I want all people to be like her when they grow up. Thank you for sharing.
She melted me with her last statement ! What an amazing woman ! Beautiful story and Beautiful lessons ! Her art is fantastic ! This film is so much more than just replanting trees ! 🌿🌲🍁🍂 ❤️🔥This has touched the depths of my soul ! ❤️🔥
Your exquisite film broke my heart open with its pure beauty and made me a more expanded human being today. Thank you for your offering of beauty to the world. Loving support from me to you.
"We're really kind if we get the chance" Such lovely words. Loved the filming here - such beauty everywhere. Her story is a beautiful one and she is blessed beyond measure xx
I don't know how this film found me but oh, now I feel like I am on the right side of the Internet. So much of what this lady has said has resonated with me. We want to go change the world but as long as we can change our little world, we have won. "what are we going to do? this problem is so much bigger than I can handle. but can you abandon someone who helped you when you were down and broken? now, this is broken. and I'm not anymore." these lines got me right in my gut. i was in the hospital ailing with a chronic undiagnoasable sickness three months ago. and lying on the white sheets, all I could think was - "I need to go to the mountains. i must return to the forests. that is where the cure lies." and once I returned to those highlanded peaks and greens - they healed me like no hand could. i have spent days walking their length and breadth, speaking to the trees, stones, sky - and they have it all. all the answers. all the cure. i have been thinking of what I can do to give back. how can I protect the one who healed me when no doctor or hospital could. this film gave me immense strength and hope. to go forth and do what is in one's power. because any work done with heart and soul is enough.
I can’t tell you how much I needed to see this film and beautiful lady who has such kindness and wisdom. I too have suffered with anxiety since childhood so I can relate to how deeply important it is to come back to yourself and re awaken in truth, acceptance and love for all the wonderful, healing nature that is actually on this planet we all think is so dreadful! It takes a certain stillness within oneself to truly be able to start to feel this again after an eternity of being numb and dulled down. Thank you so much for this film and thank you to the beautiful couple in it!
It was apparant that she loved the forest, and unfortunately we cannot correct every wrong, but thank goodness for people like this lady who are trying their hardest.
I so feel you sister! I too am finally free to be ME out in the woods. NOTHING HAS HEALED ME MORE than stopping trying to fit 'into the box' and being embraced by Mother Earths nurturing empowering presence 🙏
I crave this way of life! This is so beautiful. Being surrounded by Woods and Nature heals a person. Thanks for sharing this meaningful story! ❤ 🌲 🌳 love your Art and cabin!
Maria intuitively followed a similar path to the life long dedication of Ernst Götsch. Thank you, in the name of the trees and the forest brought back to life 🙏💖
I love the beauty of this film and the wisdom and strength of Maria. Her candor in describing her depression after being limited by sociological enforcers and influencers in her life calling her naive. I love how she later returned to her inner wisdom, returned to the forest, returned home. And the result was peace, fulfillment, and actions for healing: healing the heart and mind, healing the monoculture forest. Thank you Reflections of Life, Campfire Stories, and Happen Films :)
I came to see a film of the forest much different than I recieved. What beautiful work Maria is do for the forest and its ecosystem. It brought tears to my eyes because I resonate with the story so deeply. When the engineer said, "This is like you have a visitor's center here, people might come here for your art but maybe leave here with the forest." ..Brilliant. 🌱💚
I fell apart, got diagnosed with Lupus, now I live and work within a forested region in the Caribbean. I did not plan it, it may be cosmic but I owe a lot of my healing to it so far. I most love noticing the changes around me like the blooming of the different trees, the mating season of butterflies, the emergence of the river frogs. It's truly special.
This has impacted my soul so much. Tearful, joyful, hopeful, just overall amazing. I share her passion for the forest and respect her so very much. She’s living proof that beautiful souls exist. ❤
Very thought provoking and the messages of Maria's poetry, art and work is really significant and deeply important! A beautiful film featuring a beautiful soul!
❤ You are spot on, and I refused to bring my two young boys up, in a hypnotized Sleeping world. I was the same way as a child a little blonde hair, blue eyed girl, that always stayed dirty. I have my boys dig worms and we go to the water that’s our best times. But I want to come to Sweden with them. I went through a spiritual awakening and was drawn to the northern lights, and the old way of living has never escaped my mind. It is now only stronger at 39 years old.
In a world of homogenuous thinking, your films come out as fresh and thought provoking. We need more people to think like Maria. Happy to have stumbled upon your channel and I'm wondering why I've only recently discovered it as I've been a loyal subscriber of Happen Films for three or so years now. Kudos to all behind this collaboration. And thank you, Maria, for your profound insights.
Merci Maria de faire partie de ces personnes qui ont osé écouter leur cœur, et sortir des sentiers battus. Merci pour cet acte de courage, inspirant. J'en avais les larmes aux yeux. Merci à l'équipe Campfire Stories d'avoir su saisir avec délicatesse et justesse l'ambiance de ce lieu et les propos de Maria et son compagnon. Belle et longue Vie à chacune, chacun et à cette forêt qui se régénère.
This film is part of a series collaboration between three independent filmmakers - Reflections of Life, Campfire Stories and Happen Films. These films explore how small acts of love and kindness have the potential to ripple out and change the world, touching hearts and minds in ways that we could never begin to imagine.
We'll be sharing a total of 12 short films, from across five continents - releasing one per month for the whole year of 2024 - four from each filmmaker. Watch all of the films here: ruclips.net/p/PLye1JIzaiQ6rKe40SkcSWqoC_sn4v_vIY
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Thank you!!!
LORD HOLY SPIRIT GOD JESUS CHRIST IT IS THE PERFECT TRUTH AND SALVATION ..
the natural world it is fallen spirit's impure and evil ...
Really cool therapy insight! ❤
@A-Light-from-Heaven
How can the natural world be evil? It's a gift from God.
@@redwarrior2424
we are in the last days ...
"I think it's one of the reasons why so many of us are depressed, because we don't get space and a place and a job where we can be kind. I think it's one of the nice things with humans, we're really kind if we get the chance." ❤
I know ... Beautiful. I knew right away when she said that that it would have to be the film's ending :)
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It's beautiful as a
Vividly Soul and Spirit is influenced by Love in her Thinking and Feeling and Acting, because she united her Heart and Brain.
Living a sacred Flow.
Love it.
Best Greetings
from Germany
Beate
❤
Amazing Art and great Reportage (Video) of her Service for Nature
and Human Dignity.
We are depressed because we don't understand where we belong. At least this is my point. I'm trying to get help everywhere from anyone. I sometimes talk to much of myself to people hoping they will find the solution. The truth is we gotta listen to learn, the problem is when I ask questions to others trying to know more about that so I can get inspired the risk is being judges as nosey 😅 so need to be careful when approaching others lol
@@valentinamamazza744try Inner Engineering 🙏
“I just don’t smear the world with it” - the most appropriate metaphor I’ve heard yet
What astonishing things people can accomplish if they have the opportunity to follow their hearts instead of society’s pressure to conform. Maria’s art is delightful and her mission is so important now.
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You don’t have this opportunity given to you. You take it for yourself 💚
@@camillapalmer82 I'm trying 😢
I wish more from groups like Extinction Rebellion would use their energy more wisely like this.
Actually DO SOMETHING.
This Is So Sad For Me To Watch..
What The Beetle Is Doing, And Such A Sweet Hearted Soul Suffer So Much.. Yet
The Legacy She Has Been Left In Understanding Is Far Greater.
Beautiful.
Yes, it helps a great deal to be independently wealthy.
"can you abandonned someone that helped you when you were down...and now it's broken and I am not down anymore..." This is absolutely the way we all shall think about nature✨
Nature is the perfect healer and all parts of the natural environment can become as family if you let them - this is what I think 😊
It's comforting to know that there are people like this lady out there.
Yes, and inspiring!
Right! Her energy is beautiful 🌿
What I take when I see people like this is "I could do that, I can do that, and I will do that."
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it inspires us to do more
Go get some indigenous plants and plan to put them in 😊
I don’t understand why human became a threat to this planet simply for superficial possessions and desires. I often feel overwhelmed and ashamed for being a human and living in this society that’s built upon human’s fear. But this lady showed us how kind and beautiful mankind can be. Really thank you for making this film. ❤
You are so welcome! And thank you for your contribution!
They are not humans, they are unfeeling anyone with emotion or conscious with so little innerstaning of our world the ignorance and greed of these devils to unalienable are animals and cut are trees down, us with conscious have to fight back against it, it's not humans who are destroying are world, its the ones the control the world, us everyday humans don't like what's happening to our world but we are to afraid to fight back because we feel alone, we all need to come together and fight again this one enemy
I am right there with you. but like she pointed out in this film, we can overcome our sorrow.
Watching this I suddenly understood how ok it is to be sad under fluorescent lights and yellow walls. And how returning to the forest is returning to our ecosystem. Thank you to Maria, Johannes and Campfire Stories for this beautiful video.
I cry my eyes out every damn day. And yet I wouldn't be capable of changing my life like some other people do, for example living like this because requires braveness and to be intelligent above limit, which I'm not and feel frustrated even more coz when we don't change things keep going in same circle
@valentinamamazza744 think small, start with small steps, be more gentle, allow yourself to be happy, every day one small thing .. a smile to someone you love but also a smile to someone you don't know (well). Share positivity. Share optimism. Don't expect every day is a good day, don't blame yourself for a bad day or a bad moment, let the good things build up from 1 to 100 to 300 to 2200.
@@valentinamamazza744
Don’t look at others to compare yourself.
Let others inspire you but be yourself.
You have your beautiful life.
Your life is a gift to you.
See your life and live it.
I wish you strength and courage to be yourself 🐚
I am already really frustrated. But I find strength in some people coz I know you guys understand the way I feel even if we have different reactions@roksanaskrobisz389obviously not always easy to express myself through a simple post, but I hope there's a deeper connection between all of us
@roksanaskrobisz389 Me right now. My fear of failure ended up making me feel near suicidal so now I'm pursuing the things I've been trying to escape. Can't believe I've wasted my time when I could have just started to begin with
I'm a fanatic wildlife/pollinator gardener in the central California foothills, and since I retired, I've been planting hundreds of trees/shrubs/plants in ever increasing numbers on my 10 acres. The results have been astounding, with a large increase of wildlife. I also have a huge pond that I've been filling as needed during our dry years, and the amount of life it supports is magical-- frogs, dragonflies, fish, etc. I put out tons of birdseed every year, and those birds are preyed on by many different falcons, hawks, and others. I can't imagine not living in the country-- every day is filled with joy! Plus, I have 3 dogs that I adore......... So, paradise! Thanks for sharing!
Sounds like heaven. I'd love to live this way.
Es maravilloso ❤❤❤❤saludos desde España
I have learned to make a hot beverage, bring a box of tissue, and turn off my phone when I watch these videos. I have cried so much this past year with climate anxiety, and felt so alone. I’m autistic and nature is the only place I find peace with my mind. Today on my walk the honey bees were out. We should have snow right now. I’m so scared. But this soul and her friends have given me hope. Thank you for sharing her story with us. 💚🌳🌏
You're so welcome. And thank you for sharing a little bit of yours too!
Whether climate change is natural cycles, man made, a bit of both or none of these... healthy ecosystems are the buffer for the change that will always occurs. Creating your own healthy native ecosystem is so rewarding a wonderful therapy to cure against the inaction of our commercially controlled leaders.
Sorry to hear you've been feeling so bad. Hope you feel better and you get the opportunity to make a difference in your area, even if only small.
Dont worry, all is well and we are safe ❤ repeat this with me: All is well and I am safe 😊 #abrahamhicks
@@Sup1719creation is ongoing and we are part of it, but our economic system has made us believe that we are kind of seperate from nature and creation as whole. We are not. And that is precisely why it matters what we do, it has an impact on where we as a species are heading. And right now there is a real chance that we as humans drop out of the ongoing evolutionary process. We need to realize that we are part of the whole, we are one with all other living beings, everything and everyone is interconnected.
I cried watching this and felt so many wonderful emotions thank you 🙏🏼
My heart ❤️
Such a beautiful soul and woman !
This was a depression story a therapy story a ecological story a womens story a regrowth story a story of hope but most of all for me it was a love story
Yes, it's a beautiful story and video. ❤
Based on what she said, it seems like her depression began when she was taught to stop thinking as a child (when she was a child). And she was TOLD what was important in life, what to strive for, and what would make her happy. When she actually knew it all along, as a child.
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@@georgewhitehouse8630 Yeah I really loved that too.
That was your work, sister,
to undo the damage done
by the earlier generations
of your family.
There is no better work ❤
You are truly truly Blessed.
I started to move baby oak trees out of my yard because I hated to see oak trees die. I also started adding flowers to the woods that I know belong there because I saw them here as a child ... The wood poppies immediately took hold. Last year I added coral bells (which i have seen in the woods, not just at Lowe's!). This film gives me so many more ideas. I have begun to realize that biodiversity isneeded. It is already biodiverse where I live, but still not enough.
That's great! Keep up the good work!
Thank-you for looking after the forest.
🙌🥰🙏🙏🙏💖🌞🌳♾️💗✨️ thank you!!! Sounds wonderful!!! 💖 🙏💚💗
When you feel the world is a shitty place, you find these films and your happy again.
What she says about humans not getting the chance to be kind is deep wisdom and I am profoundly affected by it. I hope I carry this always and it helps me and those around me from now on.
Thank you all for bringing this wonderful film to us.
People like this help to restore my faith in humanity. ❤
This woman is so beautiful outside and inside. So sensitive and caring. She's not arrogant, she cares and try to understand how she could help nature restore herself not just using the human way. She's a forest witch without knowing it ❤
She's not a witch she's a healer of the forest
C'est une fée. Une magicienne. 💚🌿💚
What she has done on co-created with nature is magical indeed. ☀️🌱💛✨
Maria, Thank you for spreading your depression with the trees so they could heal you. In return you are healing them. An old saying from the United Kingdom " Don't tell the trees, they'll tell the breeze and everybody will know." If you're in trouble, in need of help for what ever reason. Sit with a tree. It messages the Spirits that live above them by their leaves and Spirits below them by their roots. Sending help in all directions. Keep moving the answers are showing you the way. Earth Blessings and prayers.🌎
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Soooo profoundly beautiful. Thank YOU for making this film. And to you Maria for your love and kindness to the forest and the trees and the world we all share
Thank you!
Thank you so much Maria. Bless you❤
She is so naturally beautiful. She just has something that shines from within her.
yesss I thought the same
I'm Australian. The fairy folk have been whispering 'Mattias' to me all week. I don't know any Mattias. Now it makes sense. I'm at the end of a very long and painful cycle and the house i rent is being sold. I may not be able to afford to rent in town. I have a feeling my children and i will be moving out of town. If i am to restore forest, it will have to restore me. I'm recovering from chronic fatigue in to of a long list of illnesses. I am already much better than i was, so it seems doable.
Thank you 💙
Thank you! And I hope your situation resolves itself in the best possible way!
Ask a forest to answer your call ❤
I hope your housing gets sorted out. It's so important to have a safe place for yourself and your children. Take care, Julia🌺
All the best wishes for you...
You are on the right path then, enjoyyy ❤🎉
I love her Facebook approach. Her whole approach to living makes sense to me. Beautiful carvings. This is a life
Thank you......🙏 thank you.......🙏. thank you........🙏 thank you............🙏 a breath of beautiful fresh air and joyful tears..... 🌳 💖
Such a beautiful lady and companion! A truly magical place. And a true poetic soul….thank you.🙏🏻💕
May the Earth's Abundant Blessings be with you now and always🙏💖@@Parianparlay
You are so welcome! 💚
The trees have a purifying field. After my wife died and I was in post traumatic stress I created paths through forests in Ireland for months in Winter. I'm grateful to these trees for their love and purity.
Sending you loving thoughts ❤
This short film drew tears to my eyes. I feel like my heart cracked open. Thank you Mia for your unwavering love for the forest and for following your heart and inspiration fiercely. Thank you, biologists, for your hopeful reframing and explanation that the forest WANTS to live, and will. Thank you, Mattias, for your creative gift to us all! Refreshed.
You are so welcome! 💚💚💚
I've never felt so understood! Kinship with tree, ferns, the silly little squirrels that follow us. "The forest as a friend"
Maria and her companion have done something quite marvellous that if left undisturbed will live on and benefit others for hundreds of years after we have all passed. Blessings to both of these amazing people. I live among great areas of monoculture both trees and grass with only the benefit being to those who make money from such barren landscapes. When I walk in an old forest I feel such relief from the stresses of the world. It is almost as if the old trees stand guardian and protect those who wander within their realm..
Yes I feel the same, and I’m devastated when men chop down our trees, we are all responsible to take care of the forests the wildlife. The men who chop them down they don’t own the forest it’s not theirs to destroy, God owns it all, He gave it to us to share it and take care of it. To safe guard it? there is a judgment coming, those who ruin or do harm to the world will pay a terrible price. And it’s coming fast, the second coming of Christ to destroy the wicked and those who destroy the earth. It’s coming !!!
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I'm glad to see an increase in these types of video and interest in like minded people! Thanks .
"If we lose all the universitys we lose nothing, but if we lose a forest, we lose everything". Bill mollison
I so so agree with the thought that so many of us just simply aren't given the space, and occupation to be ourselves...to be kind, to be true.. and it hurts. And we are hurting..
I live in a Eucalyptus Forest in Australia and many of the trees in this forest pre-date White Settlement in this area, meaning, they are over 200 years old! The forest is so alive, so vibrant, so full of life, it is beautiful!
At one time, about 75 to 100 years ago, most of the trees here were cut down to stumps, presumably to try to graze sheep here, but the soil here is poor and doesn't grow grass very well. Some of the stumps died, but most of them sent out suckers and now those suckers are full grown trees, once again!
No matter what, Nature will win!
Sooo Beautiful. ❤ If only Mother Nature was everyone's teacher. Thank you.🙏🌾
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YES!! A woman with a heart, a loving soul, and spirit that LISTENS to her in-born instinct! Her Face Books - I love it!!! As it should have always been...without giving away the rights to our lives, pictures, and stories! Good for her. Thank you for starting this series to restore our souls!
She is a example what a human really is and needs, his own nature in nature you find everything and yourself and your purpose ❣️✨🤍
Yes, I agree! Thank you!
@@campfire-storiesthanks to you for doing your purpose ✨🌄
The earth energy is in transition. Humans are all awakening and have a joice. We are all from the same source 🤍✨
She apears, to me, an intense life lover! I'm from the Amazon rain forest! Gratitude f🙏🏻🦋🩷💥🇧🇷🦋🙏🏻
I am very grateful that you didn't grow out of your wonderment and joy in life with love for the Earth and the way of understanding the importance of nature and peacefulness. ❤
This is one of the most beautiful films about one of the most beautiful people I ever saw. I love her art, her ideas, her thoughts about life and nature.
Thank you!
A beautiful story unfolding with enchanting characters. It makes me happy seeing these people are in the world.
Thank you!
I am a poet too. I have a kind of inherent fear of lonely people. Life seems to be forcing me into a lonely end. I am fearful of ending my final chapter in this way. This woman has found something to offset the fear. There are many diagnoses a doctor can give you that quite literally do not exist in one person in a forest. An example might be ADHD. Right at the top of the stack of man made-up conditions. The medicalisation of anxieties and living disorders. I can hear the anxiety in her voice, but it is sated by her forest and art. How fortunate her mother left all this wonderland for her. ❤
she doesn't seem lonely, though
What a touching film, what a wonderful work and purpose to save trees and create such beautiful energy. Since my childhood I have loved all forests and especially over the years the nature of Sweden. Thank you for all your truth and love♥
"Its not always the goal to reduce human impact. It matters what we do." 👍💯💗🙏😁🥰 yessss!!!! We are the caretakers!! We can either uplift or harm. This woman is clearly uplifting the forest and doing it the way the forest prefers!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!
For anyone interested in learning more about how forests and trees work ibhighly recommend the book "the hidden life of trees" by Peter Wohlleben. Amazing. Wish everyone in the world could read it.💚🌳♾️😁🥰💗
I love that book too!
Absolutely beautiful. Her philosophy, the forest, her partner in the work, her art, her choice to be herself. I think she is correct about not enough of us having the opportunity to be kind, which can be our essential nature. The Dalai Lama would be proud of her.
Her Face Book is incredible and such a good reflection on social media, art making, intellectual property and more
Thank you/Stor Tack Maria, Johannes and Mattias for this film. And to Martin Jentzen for his words:
"... people might come here for your art. But maybe they leave with the forest". I hope so! And I hope that many others do like Maria & Johannes.
Greeting and hug/Hälsning & kram från Värmland
Andrea
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Tha line about people come for your art but leave with tge forest. The way her partner touched her shows just how much this means for him to see her efforts recognised in the way she intended.
Well, I was only about a minute in when I started to tear up. I live on the edge of a forest. I'm also an artist. Thank you for making this beautiful film, Matthias. And Maria, thank you for sharing your love of the Trees and for caring for them with all of your heart. 💚
Living in a Suburb of a major city l feel home sick watching this and so proud of her efforts, kindness and love of nature...a move back to true home is on the horizon this is inspiring 💚
Yess follow your heart 💜
So wonderful to see people doing good in the world.
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Oh my... I am crying so hard... I am 40 and started on the same "journey", I am just in the beginning, the first steps, you know. Now I know, it IS my way... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for sharing this movie... I am German, but my ancestors are partly from Sweden .. I belong there, I feel it. Some day I will come back. I promise.
Beautiful project and legacy. We wiped out most woodland planting creatures - our atonement and sentence is to perform their function - accelerate the recovery of ecosystems - we can be natures seeds spreaders too. Many humans around the world are awakening to this calling all at once.....everyone should do this in their garden, farms, parks, balconies.
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Hey, I'm Irish, I clicked through to your UT channel and saw your drone footage of forests in westport. If I'm in the area, would love to go ancient foresting with someone knowledgeable and passionate about our trees, if that is you hit me up. We could make a group of it.
@@magicalmya Let me know when youre around Mya
In the not very great vast American yard! Read/watch Doug Tallamy please!
We are relatives, most definitely.. maybe not by blood, but soul - I see and feel you, sister 🙏🏻💜
This is beyond inspiring. The best thing I’ve seen in a long time here on RUclips. It brought tears.
This is beautifully documented. The foresters and timber industry not only clearcuts all around our 11 acres here in Oregon but then they also spray poisionous chemicals to "control" undergrowth, and so called pests. It is devastating and very hard to fight. Just one of the many broken parts of our broken system. Thank you for making this film❤ it is very important. Not giving up yet! In gratitude, Theresa
Blessings to her for being a caretaker of the land, instead of seeing it as purely something to take from or make money from. What a beautiful life she lives within nature's embrace ❤.
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its crazy how what we think a healthy forest looks like is completely different than a thriving forest, especially with native plants
Living in the natural 🌎 creating a good place for the future. RESPECT
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I can relate when you said "your thoughts go out into your hands". We need to protect the forests. They are powerful and at the same time so fragile. Taking care of a special beautiful creation. We and the earth need more people like you ❤️🌹💐🌻🌺
LOVE this story Mattias. So deeply moving. And such a beautiful reminder of how we all have the power to make a difference in this world, through our thoughts and actions. So excited about this collaboration together with you, and all the wonderful stories that will be unfolding during the rest of this year ahead. Big love. Justine and Michael x
Stop it, I'm going to cry! :) You guys ... What an honour to be part of this project!
Face Book, "No one owns me, takes my rights or owns my work." This documentary filled my heART. . This is what it means to be a visionary. Nature is the place I come "home" to mySELF and can be away from the noise that has become our world. Thank you for sharing Maria's life, art and story
Thank you. Such thoughtful kindness, goodness, truth and beauty.
Thank you ! 💚
She is an example we should ALL follow. Much Praise to her Beautiful Soul ❤❤❤
Kindness is our nature and within nature we develop it more and more. Such a beautiful soul and if it is if Maria is living a Fairy Tail. Thank you Mattias for this weekend gift. With love from Belgium.
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Imagine how beautiful the planet and all of life would be if every person lived and acted and believed like Maria... such a beautiful, selfless, respectful soul. I want to be like her when I grow up... I want all people to be like her when they grow up. Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful! What a remarkable woman is Maria. Such a joy to see the forest in the throes of rebirth. The wonder of nature 🙏
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This woman is a woodland fae/elemental being. The harmony she has, so magical.
Such a beautiful and sweet lady……Thank you!❤❤
You are so welcome!
She melted me with her last statement ! What an amazing woman ! Beautiful story and Beautiful lessons ! Her art is fantastic ! This film is so much more than just replanting trees ! 🌿🌲🍁🍂
❤️🔥This has touched the depths of my soul ! ❤️🔥
Thank you so much!
Your exquisite film broke my heart open with its pure beauty and made me a more expanded human being today. Thank you for your offering of beauty to the world. Loving support from me to you.
Wow, thank you so much!
This lovely woman has my heart.I am of the same thoughts. I love trees.🌲💚
Maria what a lovely video. I always found peace walking in my forest listening and truly being in touch.Your art is beautiful you are in touch.❤🌲🌿
"We're really kind if we get the chance" Such lovely words. Loved the filming here - such beauty everywhere. Her story is a beautiful one and she is blessed beyond measure xx
Thank you.
A beautiful lifestyle. Lovely human beings in a forest.
This lady ... Is... LOVE!
This is a profound story... a voice for the wild that needs to be heard 💗🙏🌿Thank you so much for creating and sharing this work of art
You are so welcome! 💚
I don't know how this film found me but oh, now I feel like I am on the right side of the Internet. So much of what this lady has said has resonated with me. We want to go change the world but as long as we can change our little world, we have won.
"what are we going to do? this problem is so much bigger than I can handle.
but can you abandon someone who helped you when you were down and broken?
now, this is broken. and I'm not anymore."
these lines got me right in my gut. i was in the hospital ailing with a chronic undiagnoasable sickness three months ago. and lying on the white sheets, all I could think was - "I need to go to the mountains. i must return to the forests. that is where the cure lies."
and once I returned to those highlanded peaks and greens - they healed me like no hand could. i have spent days walking their length and breadth, speaking to the trees, stones, sky - and they have it all. all the answers. all the cure.
i have been thinking of what I can do to give back. how can I protect the one who healed me when no doctor or hospital could.
this film gave me immense strength and hope. to go forth and do what is in one's power. because any work done with heart and soul is enough.
The space to be kind
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What a wonderful motto
I can’t tell you how much I needed to see this film and beautiful lady who has such kindness and wisdom. I too have suffered with anxiety since childhood so I can relate to how deeply important it is to come back to yourself and re awaken in truth, acceptance and love for all the wonderful, healing nature that is actually on this planet we all think is so dreadful! It takes a certain stillness within oneself to truly be able to start to feel this again after an eternity of being numb and dulled down. Thank you so much for this film and thank you to the beautiful couple in it!
It was apparant that she loved the forest, and unfortunately we cannot correct every wrong, but thank goodness for people like this lady who are trying their hardest.
I so feel you sister! I too am finally free to be ME out in the woods. NOTHING HAS HEALED ME MORE than stopping trying to fit 'into the box' and being embraced by Mother Earths nurturing empowering presence 🙏
I crave this way of life! This is so beautiful. Being surrounded by Woods and Nature heals a person. Thanks for sharing this meaningful story! ❤ 🌲 🌳 love your Art and cabin!
Maria intuitively followed a similar path to the life long dedication of Ernst Götsch.
Thank you, in the name of the trees and the forest brought back to life 🙏💖
Maria you are a contagious miracle 🍀💚🌳
Brilliant film Matthias 🎉
Thank you so much! 💚
“It’s not always the goal to reduce human impact… it a matter of what we do.”
This reached down deep to my soul and brought tears to my eyes.
She's beautiful. I love her art, her curiosity, her heart.
A woman who understands my own heart ❤
❤ some of us can feel that we are part of all of it...precious people
I love the beauty of this film and the wisdom and strength of Maria. Her candor in describing her depression after being limited by sociological enforcers and influencers in her life calling her naive.
I love how she later returned to her inner wisdom, returned to the forest, returned home. And the result was peace, fulfillment, and actions for healing: healing the heart and mind, healing the monoculture forest.
Thank you Reflections of Life, Campfire Stories, and Happen Films :)
This video has brought me to tears. You are a beautiful being. I don't know you but I love you for your healing help.
World needs more people like this beautiful couple.
What she says at the end about space to be kind …just WOW! 😮😢
I came to see a film of the forest much different than I recieved. What beautiful work Maria is do for the forest and its ecosystem. It brought tears to my eyes because I resonate with the story so deeply. When the engineer said, "This is like you have a visitor's center here, people might come here for your art but maybe leave here with the forest." ..Brilliant. 🌱💚
I fell apart, got diagnosed with Lupus, now I live and work within a forested region in the Caribbean. I did not plan it, it may be cosmic but I owe a lot of my healing to it so far. I most love noticing the changes around me like the blooming of the different trees, the mating season of butterflies, the emergence of the river frogs. It's truly special.
It always surprises me that in our healing we stumble on a purpose. ❤💚💚
Thankyou for that that’s beautiful you just gave me hope 💜
This has impacted my soul so much. Tearful, joyful, hopeful, just overall amazing. I share her passion for the forest and respect her so very much. She’s living proof that beautiful souls exist. ❤
Very thought provoking and the messages of Maria's poetry, art and work is really significant and deeply important! A beautiful film featuring a beautiful soul!
So, thank you for having that depression 😊. I am so totaly in love with people like you Mia ❤. Thank you ❤
❤ You are spot on, and I refused to bring my two young boys up, in a hypnotized Sleeping world. I was the same way as a child a little blonde hair, blue eyed girl, that always stayed dirty.
I have my boys dig worms and we go to the water that’s our best times.
But I want to come to Sweden with them. I went through a spiritual awakening and was drawn to the northern lights, and the old way of living has never escaped my mind. It is now only stronger at 39 years old.
🙌🥰😁♾️🙏💚🌞💖 thank you!!! You're amazing!! 💕💗😁🥰
In a world of homogenuous thinking, your films come out as fresh and thought provoking. We need more people to think like Maria. Happy to have stumbled upon your channel and I'm wondering why I've only recently discovered it as I've been a loyal subscriber of Happen Films for three or so years now. Kudos to all behind this collaboration. And thank you, Maria, for your profound insights.
I just cried from the bottom of my heart ... i think she is a WONDERFUL Women and gives so much back to the forrest and he loves her❤❤THANK YOU 🙏🍀
Merci Maria de faire partie de ces personnes qui ont osé écouter leur cœur, et sortir des sentiers battus. Merci pour cet acte de courage, inspirant. J'en avais les larmes aux yeux. Merci à l'équipe Campfire Stories d'avoir su saisir avec délicatesse et justesse l'ambiance de ce lieu et les propos de Maria et son compagnon. Belle et longue Vie à chacune, chacun et à cette forêt qui se régénère.