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The narrator shifts to pondering the natural landscape—namely, the mountain across the street, densely covered in trees like cedars, oaks, and pines—estimating over 100,000 trees visible from their vantage point. They nostalgically recall that the same mountain was once the woods their cabin was built on, emphasizing the unchanged, timeless nature of their rural environment over the past 40-45 years.