Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

The line urges a return to immediacy and embodied living: to walk barefoot, to let wind touch one’s hair, to remember that nature is not merely scenery but a responsive presence. By personifying earth and wind as beings that “delight” and “long,” the speaker frames the natural world as a partner in human life—inviting intimacy rather than domination. The admonition “Forget not” suggests modern habits of abstraction, haste, or self-enclosure that sever us from sensory contact. In Gibran’s spiritual-poetic idiom, such contact becomes restorative: a reminder of belonging, humility, and the quiet joy of being physically alive in a larger, animate world.