Conversations with the Earth: The Forest Remembers

"See & Draw" Art Workshop Series 7 Institute for Nature Study, National Museum of Nature and Science（Tokyo） In a forest left to grow as it pleased, so many lives were shining— on the ground, and high in the sky. As we drew side by side, somehow our pictures started to look alike. On our walk we found it: trees joining together like an arch overhead. Branches stretching soft and supple, the coolness of their shade. Meeting the color of the water with an open heart, charmed by little leaf-boats of every color floating on its surface. Caught up in the fun of it, caught up in the beauty— why is it, I wonder, that we can't look away? A forest left to grow as it pleased, a forest filled with light and gentle moisture.

『この星との話し方7：森の記憶をたどって』

中村瞳美

　国立科学博物館附属自然教育園（東京）

　 2026年

自然にまかせて　育った森には

たくさんのいのちが

輝いていました

地上にも

天空にも

一緒に描いていたら

なんだか似てきたね

散策で見つけた

アーチのような　木々の共演

しなやかに伸びる木や

木陰の涼しさ

水の色に　素直に向き合い

色とりどりの小舟に　心惹かれ

面白さや　美しさに

夢中になった

なぜ

見入ってしまうんだろうね

自然にまかせて　育った森

光と潤いで　満ちた森

Supported by

Sachi Ikeda

Seji Iwasaki

Institute for Nature Study, National Museum of Nature and Science

Wako University

Funded by

the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research JP24K15949

© Hitomi NAKAMURA 2026

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