This piece is one of my favorites, it radiates the deep protective presence of the whale, one of the most important guardians of Gaïa.

"But you know the trees, and they are surely the greatest of dreamers.
He, in his turn, had a dream.
He who was so anchored to the earth, he dreamt of moving over it freely, madly, wandering across it.
And so, the earthworm appeared.
And this was the fourth dream, the fourth path...
For a long time, the earthworm searched for his fulfillment, his ecstasy.
During his quest and one by one, he took the form of a porcupine, a puma, an eagle, a rattlesnake.
For a long time he wandered and then one fine day, in a tremendous flash...
in the middle of the ocean... a very strange creature arose
in whom all the creatures of the earth found their fulfillment;
and they saw that it was the whale!"
Extract from The Fifth Dream, Swift Deer, Shaman Navajo,
quoted by Patrice Van Eersel