The Skunks are Coming Out

This song has been in our community for many years, though we are not sure who or where it comes from.

Fire In The Sky

This is the chorus of a longer song by Patty Zeitlin

Worms Worms

We heard this song came to Meredith Buck as she was participating in a women’s wilderness retreat where each participant was blindfolded and then asked to cross a river, following nothing but the sound of a drummer on the other side.

Brought from the West Coast to the Pine Community by Roland.

Lay Yourself Down

Lyrics from a Victor Hugo titled Dans l'église de. Song by Arthur Frackenpohl.

Be Like A Bird

By Carly Joynt, Evelyn Lurz and Brian Wendler

Death Song

Hummamumma

There Is A Place I Know

Written by Nikki Satira. This song came to her at the end of a p.i.n.e. staff training canoe trip as she was doing a three hour sit-spot on the water. Her intention going into this trip was to heal her relationship with water, after having a near-death experience on a white water rafting trip in 2011.

Water Song

Written by Scott Kalechstein Grace. "This version of the song has morphed considerably from it’s author’s original version called An Open Heart. He gives his blessing to spreading this version as well." You can find the original version on YouTube by searching "Scott Grace An Open Heart".

Gonna Let Life Move Me

Adapted from the Leonard Cohen song, "Anthem". Sang as a call-and-response.

That’s How The Light Gets In

A really old French-Canadian logging song - at least 100 years old. Whole story hereL http://foresthalls.org/wolffox.html

I Hear the Wolf & the Fox & the Weasel

I Thank The Earth

Song by Abbi Spinner. Some lyrics changed by Meghan Riley.

Fire Of Creation

Song by Sarah Pirtle "In 1979 I was attending a workshop with Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb. On a January evening we stood outside under a full moon for a ceremony, and afterwards as I was walking back, I heard the song arrive in my mind. I kept singing it on hikes but  I didn't know if others would like to learn it, until I shared it first with my affinity group at the Seneca Women's Encampment in 1983. A Gentle Wind recorded it in 1984 on "Two Hands Hold the Earth." The wonder of a song is that today it is sung in schools, at nature centers, at herbal trainings, and by performers including Annie Patterson, Bruce O'Brien, and the Seedy Seeds.


What I love to do is ask people about a favorite tree or flower or other part of nature that they love and encourage them to make up their own new verses -- "I am a sunflower jumping up high." You can also delve into other directions like, "I am a voice healing life."

My Roots Go Down

Song written by T'jen Bishop when she was doing a sit spot during her Anake program at Wilderness Awareness School

When I Was Young

I Am Home

Written by Naomi Littlebear - first sang at Rainbow Gathering in 1980

Wild One

Lyrics are from a Navajo Prayer called "Walk in Beauty" from the Navajo Way blessing ceremony, turned into a song by Gregg Smith

Walk in Beauty

Roland learned this song at the Art of Mentoring. It's original author is currently unknown

Grateful to be

Written by Emily Stewart in the summer of 2017 at Wild Things camp in Muskoka. A huge thunderstorm came through and the sky was green - thunder was cracking over everyones heads and Emily was terrified. She walked somewhere and in the three minutes she was gone she recieved this song. Emily changed the lyrics from rain song to rain fall a few months later. Lyrics: 1st part: "Boom clap rain song/fall" repeated 2nd part: "Feel the rain reveal the truth, hear the thunder crack and use your heart to hug a crying cloud, I love it when the sky gets loud *clap* I love it when the sky gets loud *clap clap*"

Boom Clap Rain Fall

Song by Stuart Stotts
"It was a tough winter last year. Enough to traumatize lots of folks as this winter hit. It’s so dark right now, and I’ve always wanted to write a solstice song. Here’s one for Heather.
It hasn’t been the easiest year but love grows anyway. 1 by 1 and 2 by 2."
https://stuartstotts.com/darkest-days/

Photo by Meghan Cox

Darkest Days

Earth Between My Toes

Written by a woman who used to work for pine named Cada while she was in the shower - the lyrics "nature is always teaching" are from the tagline of White Pine Programs, who she was working for at the time.

Nature Is Always Teaching

Robin Redbreast

Composed by Laurence Cole, adapted from the poem "The Invitation" by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Let Us See The Beauty

Written by Mackenzie Meyers while she was walking through the forest in California

Breathe Me In

A song arranged by Sweet Honey In The Rock

Quote by June Jordan

We Are The Ones

We Give Thanks

Poem by Wendell Berry, adapted into a song by Samuel Lockridge

When I Rise

The p.i.n.e. project’s mission is to build healthy communities deeply connected to the natural environment.
To achieve this we deliver programs focused on building relationships between self, others, and the environment. Using music, drama, storytelling, naturalist studies, stewardship, survival skills, outdoor adventures, intergenerational learning, games, and play we weave a “culture of nature connection”. This empowers our mantra: be more, need less.

And yes, WE LOVE SONGS!!!

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