It will beggar a doctor to live where
orchards thrive.
- Spanish proverb
There's a tree that grows in
Brooklyn. Some people call it the
Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree
which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded up plots
and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar
gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows
lushly ... survives without sun, water and seemingly without
earth. It would be considered beautiful except
that there are too many of it.
- Betty Smith, 1896-1972
The History of Gardening Timeline
From Ancient Times to the Twentieth Century
I'll lie here and learn How, over
their ground,
Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.
- Louise Bogan, 1898-1970
God has cared for these trees, saved
them from drought, disease,
avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from fools.
- John Muir
Even if I knew that tomorrow the
world would go to pieces,
I would still plant my apple tree.
- Martin Luther (1483-1546)
You can live for years next door
to a big pine tree, honored to have
so venerable a neighbor, even
when it sheds needles all over your flowers
or wakes you, dropping big cones
onto your deck at still of night.
- Denise Levertov, Threat
A well maintained landscape with
mature trees can increase property values up to
25 percent. Trees can cool houses in the summer. A city lot with 30 percent plant
cover
provides the equivalent cooling necessary to air condition two moderately sized
houses 12 hours a day in the summer.
The Value of Trees Around Your
Home.
There are those who say that trees
shade the garden too much, and interfere
with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:
but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing
upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face,
I should be grateful for shade.
- Charles Dudley Warner
It is good to know the truth, but it
is better to speak of palm trees.
Arab Proverb
It is not so much for its beauty that
the forest makes a claim upon
men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that
emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews
a weary spirit.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
We ask for the blessing of the Inner
Guardians of the Order and of our
Druid forebears that this Grove might become a truly holy and sanctified place.
We respect and honour and admire you, O trees, for you represent both
Peace and Power - though you are mighty you hurt no creature. Though
you sustain us with your breath, you will give up your life to house and
warm and teach us. We give thanks for your blessing upon our lives
and upon our lands. May you fare well in this chosen place.
Awen.
- Druid
Ceremony for Planting a Grove
The grove is the centre of their
whole religion.
It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place
of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
Tacitus, Germania
From such crooked wood as that which
man is made of,
nothing straight can be fashioned.
Immanuel Kant
If what I say resonates with
you, it is merely
because we are both branches on the same tree.
- W.. B . Yeats
Perennials sleep the first year, they
creep the second year, and they leap the third year.
- Anonymous
Oh to be free of myself,
With nothing left to remember,
To have my heart as bare
As a tree in December;
Resting, as a tree rests
After its leaves are gone,
Waiting no more for a rain at night
Nor for the red at dawn;
- Sara Teasdale, The Tree
Quotes for Gardeners
Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Poetry, Maxims, Quips,
Cliches, Adages, Wisdom
A Collection Growing to Over 2,000 Quotes, Arranged by 105 Topics
Many of the Topics also have Recommended Readings and Internet Links.
Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo
The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's
pretty,
The poplar's gentle and tall,
But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city -
I love him best of all.
- Edith Nesbit, 1858-1924
Man is nature as much as the
trees.
- Dan Kiley, American landscape designer
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
- Robert Frost, Birch Trees
The talking oak
To the ancient spoke.
But any tree
Will talk to me.
- Mary Carolyn Davies
Flowers - Quotes for Gardeners
The
grove is the centre of their whole religion.
It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place
of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
- Tacitus, Germania
Boys need wood to chop.
- Stephen D. Nadauld
He that plants trees loves others
beside himself.
- Thomas Fuller
They are beautiful in their peace,
they are wise in their silence.
They will stand after we are dust. They teach us, and we tend them.
- Galeain ip Altiem MacDunelmor
I am not bound for any public place,
but for ground of my own
where I have planted vines and orchard trees,
and in the heat of the day climbed up
into the healing shadow of the woods.
- Wendell Berry
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked
his gardener to plant a tree.
The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach
maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time
to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
- As told by John F. Kennedy
Just think of the trees: they let the birds perch and
fly, with no intention to
call them when they come and no longing for their return when they fly away.
If people's hearts can be like the trees, they will not be off the Way.
- Langya
If a tree is treated as a living
organism, with an understanding of its vital
functions, it will be a constant source of profit and pleasure to men.
- N.T. Mirov
twisting inland,
the sea fog takes awhile
in the apple trees.
- Michael McClintock
By gathering seed from trees which
are close to our homes and close to our
hearts, helping them to germinate and grow, and then planting them back
into their original landscapes, we can all make a living link between this
millennium and the next, a natural bridge from the past to the future.
- Chris Baines
Stand
Tall and Proud
Sink your roots deeply into the Earth
Reflect the light of a greater source
Think long term
Go out on a limb
Remember your place among all living beings
Embrace with joy the changing seasons
For each yields its own abundance
The Energy and Birth of Spring
The Growth and Contentment of Summer
The Wisdom to let go of leaves in the Fall
The Rest and Quiet Renewal of Winter
- Ilan Shamir, Advice
From a Tree
Of all the wonders of nature, a tree
in summer
is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible
exception of a moose singing "Embraceable You" in spats.
- Woody Allen
It seemed a strange thing to him,
when earth was earth and rain was rain,
that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while
by every branch and
lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same
everywhere,
and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places.
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1896-1953
If you reveal your secrets to the
wind you should not blame
the wind for revealing them to the trees.
- Khalil Gibran
We can see from the experience of Odin that
the image of the tree was the template
within which all of the sacred world could be apprehended. The tree was the framework
within which one "flew" to these Otherworlds. And since the exploration of
sacred space
was also a quest into the nature of human consciousness, the tree was regarded as an
image of the ways in which we, humans, are constructed psychically. It was a natural
model for our deepest wisdom, our highest aspirations.
- Brian Bates, Sacred
Trees
I never saw a discontented tree.
They grip the ground as though
they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we
do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind,
going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around
the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven
knows how fast and far!
- John Muir
Approaching a tree we approach a
sacred being who can teach
us about love and about endless giving. She is one of millions
of beings who provide our air, our homes, our fuel, our books.
Working with the spirit of the tree can bring us renewed energy,
powerful inspiration, deep communion.
- Druid Tree
Lore and the Ogham
Acts of creation are
ordinarily reserved for gods and poets.
To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
- Aldo Leopold
Fruits and Nuts - Quotes for Gardeners
Then here 's to the oak, the brave
old oak,
Who stands in his pride alone!
And still flourish he a hale green tree
When a hundred years are gone!
- H. F. Chorley. 1831-1872.
Haiku Poetry - Links, Bibliography and Guides
Solitary trees, if they grow at all,
grow strong.
- Winston Churchill
The best friend of earth of man is
the tree. When we use the tree respectfully
and economically, we have one of the greatest resources on the earth.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Thou shalt not destroy the trees
thereof by forcing an axe against them:
for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down
(for the tree of the field is man's life)...
- Deuteronomy 20:19
If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know
that things that
are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the
divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.
- Wendell Berry
Bread and butter, devoid of charm in
the drawing room,
is ambrosia eaten under a tree.
- Elizabeth Von Antrim
Some trees serve multiple purposes: the
baobab in Africa, the mulberry in China,
the coconut palm in the tropics.
The poor ignorant savage even
apologized to a tree for having to
cut it down and had sacred groves and woods he left standing—
homes of the gods or of his fellow creatures—whereas his successor,
who ungodded nature, ravages the heights and brings floods,
dustbowls and salt pans into the once fertile lowlands. Or worse,
defoliates to facilitate hunting down his brother man.
- Jacob Trapp, The Light of a Thousand Suns, 1973
Handle even a single leaf of green in
such a way that it
manifests the body of the Buddha.
This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.
- Dogen
Evil enters like a needle and spreads like a
oak tree.
- Proverb from Ethiopia
The bud is on the bough again,
The leaf is on the tree.
- Charles Jefferys, The Meeting of Spring and Summer
When walking through a warm and lush forest
setting one's thoughts can easily
take flights of fancy. It is not difficult to shed the layers of modern life and find
one's more subtle or primitive beginnings. Somewhere from deep within the
spirit
and majesty of each single tree steps forth and at once one can find themselves
transported to a world of shadow and shade.
- Morgan La Fey, Sacred Trees
Does a dragon still sing from
within a withered tree?
- Dogen
Trees can reduce utility bills (air
conditioning in summer, heating in winter) when planted properly:
Heating: Using trees as windbreaks allows savings of 10% - 20%.
Cooling: Shading windows and walls can lower AC costs by 25% - 50%.
The Benefits of Planting
Trees
The true meaning of life is to plant
trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
-Nelson Henderson
The forest is a peculiar organism of
unlimited kindness and benevolence
that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the
products of its life and activity; it affords protection to all beings.
- Buddhist Sutra
Trees I - Quotes for Gardeners
I went to the woods because I wished
to live deliberately, to front only the
essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
You know the Zen question, 'The
Bodhisattva of Great Mercy
[Avalokitesvara, or Kannon] has a thousand hands and a
thousand eyes; which is the true eye?' I could not understand
this for a long time. But the other day, when I looked at the
pine trees bending before the cold blasts from the mountain,
I suddenly realized the meaning. You see, all the boughs,
branches, twigs, and leaves simultaneously bend
to the wind with tremendous vigor.
- Two Zen Classics, Translated by Katsuki Sekida, Case 37,
Joshu's Oak Tree
Of all man's works of art, a
cathedral is greatest.
A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Oak-logs will warm you well,
That are old and dry;
Logs of pine will sweetly smell
But the sparks will fly.
- Mother Goose, Wood Lore
The evergreen! How beautiful,
how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen!
When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries
we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make
it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants
differing in the first rule and law of their existence.
- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814
If I thought I was going to die
tomorrow,
I should nevertheless plant a tree today.
- Stephan Girard
I measure myself
Against a tall tree
I find that I am much taller,
For I reach right up to the sun
With my eye;
And I reach to the shore of the sea
With my ear.
Nevertheless, I dislike
The way the ants crawl
In and out of my shadow.
- Wallace Stevens
Trees: Lore, Myths, Magick, Legends, Esoterica
I have reached illusion's end in this
grove of falling leaves.
Each leaf a signal of past joy, drifting here within my heart.
- Mu Dan
Huge Elm thy rifted trunk all notched
and scarred
Like to a warrior's destiny - I love
To stretch me often on such shadowed sward
And hear the sighs of summer leaves above
Or on thy buttressed roots to sit and lean
In careless attitude and there reflect
On times and deeds and darings that have been
Old cast aways now swallowed in neglect
While thou art towering in thy strength of heart
Stirring the soul to vain imaginings
In which life's sordid being hath no part
The wind in that eternal ditty sings
Humming of future things that burns the mind
To leave some fragment of itself behind.
- John Clare, Salter's Tree
Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his
friend,
Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Woodnotes
They took all the trees
And put them in a tree museum
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half just to see'em.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone.
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot.
- Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi
Some men go through a forest and see
no firewood.
- English proverb
A tree is our most intimate contact
with nature.
- George Nakashima, woodworker
Thank God, they cannot cut down the
clouds!
- Henry David Thoreau
It is difficult to place a monetary value on
the many vital services that trees provide.
However, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection calculates that a
single
tree that lives for fifty years will contribute service worth nearly $200,000 (in
1994 dollars)
to the community during its lifetime. This includes providing oxygen ($31,250),
recycling
water and regulating humidity ($37,000), controlling air pollution ($62,500),
producing
protein ($2,500), providing shelter for wildlife ($31,250), and controlling land
erosion and fertilizing the soil ($31,250).
- Sacred
Trees
Blessed is the man who has found
wisdom...
Her ways are good ways,
and all her paths are peaceful,
She is a tree of life to all that lay hold upon her.
- Proverbs 3:18
Seasons - Quotes for Gardeners
A tree growing out of the ground is
as wonderful today as it ever was.
It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
- Robert Henri
By the grey woods, by the swamp,
where the toad and newt encamp,
by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each spot
the most unholy, by each nook most melancholy, there the traveller
meets, aghast, sheeted memories of the Past. Shrouded forms that
start and sigh, as they pass the wanderer by. White-robed forms of
friends long given; In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven.
- Edgar Allen Poe, Dreamland
A tree, young or old, if admired,
remains a definite vision, and when after long
absence it is visited again, the meeting place is approached with feelings of
pleasure and curiosity as to how one's friend had fared, even with thoughts
as to what changes may come to tree or visitor since first they met; this
may seem like a foolish sentiment - perhaps it is. But, after all,
sentiment is mingled with most that's best in life.
- Charles Eley, Gardening for the Twentieth Century,
1923
Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
- Kahlil Gibran
Death is a low chemical trick played
on everybody
except sequoia trees.
- J.J. Furnas
When you enter a grove
peopled with ancient trees, higher than
the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined
branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of
the place then strike you with the presence of a deity?
- Seneca
Look at the trees, look at the birds,
look at the clouds, look at the stars...
and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence
is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason;
they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are
not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance.
Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable
how happy flowers are.
- Osho
Hawthorn,
white and odorous with blossom,
framing the quiet fields,
and swaying flowers and grasses,
and the hum of bees.
- F. S. Flint, 1885-1960, Trees
Enormous and solid
but swaying,
beaten by the wind
but chained,
murmur of a million leaves
against my window.
Riot of trees,
surge of dark green sounds.
The grove,
suddenly still,
is a web of fronds and branches.
- Octavio Paz, The Grove, Return - 1975.
The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz: 1957 -1987. (New Directions
Paperback.)
The lofty oak from a small acorn
grows.
- Lewis Duncombe, De Minimus Maxima
We all travel the milky way together,
trees and men ...
trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make
journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own
little comes and goes are only little more than
tree-wavings - many of them not so much.
- John Muir, Scribner's Monthly, November 1878
Peace to these little broken leaves,
That strew our common ground;
That chase their tails, like silly dogs,
As they go round and round.
For though in winter boughs are bare,
Let us not once forget
Their summer glory, when these leaves
Caught the great Sun in their strong net;
And made him, in the lower air,
Tremble - no bigger than a star!
- W.H. Davies, Leaves
Did you measure to attain your
height?
Did you use geometry to radiate your limb?
Did you lament storm-torn branches?
Did you inventory your leaves for the sun?
You did none of these things, yet man in his cleverness
Cannot match your perfection.
- Deng Ming-Dao
The flowing water makes the still
mountain move;
the vivid trees make the obdurate stone alive.
- Shitao
Alone
with myself
The trees bend
to carress me
The shade hugs
my heart.
- Candy Polgar
Whoever does not love trees, does not
love God.
- Elder Amphilochios of Patmos (1888-1970)
When the long, varnished buds of
beech
Point out beyond their reach,
And tanned by summer suns
Leaves of bright bryony turn bronze,
And gossamer floats bright and wet
From trees that are their own sunset,
Spring, summer, autumn I come here,
And what is there to fear?
And yet I never lose the feeling
That someone else behind is stealing
Or else in front has disappeared;
Though nothing I have seen or heard,
Makes me still walk beneath these boughs
With cautious step as in a haunted house.
- Andrew Young, The Birchwood
The oldest living thing in existence is not a
giant redwood,
but a bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California,
dated to be aged 4,600 years old.
- Plants and
Botany Trivia
Her upon whom the trees, Lords of the Forest,
stand firm,
unshakable, in every place, this long-enduring Earth we
now invoke, the giver of all manner of delights.
- Atharva Veda 12.1.27, Nature Devas
Trees help you see slices of
sky between branches,
point to things you could never reach.
Trees help you watch the growing happen,
watch blossoms burst then dry,
see shade twist to the pace of a sun,
birds tear at unwilling seeds.
- Rochelle Mass, Waiting for a Message
The Tree
The calm quiet
strength of a tree
Anchored deep in the earth
Reaching high in the sky
The calm quiet strength of a tree
The calm quiet strength of a tree
Full of life from its roots
To the tiniest branch
The calm quiet strength of a tree
And oh, how it comforts me
How it teaches me
Without a sound
Then I realize at once
That this tree and I are one
In eternity
The calm quiet strength of a tree
From the weight of its trunk
To its delicate leaves
The calm quiet strength of a tree
The calm quiet strength of a tree
Showing anyone near
All the secrets of time
The calm quiet strength of a tree
Copyright 1994 Tom Splitt
Listen to
The Tree
Robert Johnson, vocals
Tom Splitt, piano
(1.2mb MP3)
To receive a CD of the complete song,
contact tomsplitt@att.net".
La rama que crece torcida nunca se
endereza.
A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning,
will never straighten out.
Newspapers: dead trees with
information smeared on them.
- "Electronic Frontier"
Many people, other than the authors,
contribute to the making of a book,
from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through
the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that
were pulped for its printing. It is not customary to acknowledge the trees
themselves, though their commitment is total.
- Forsyth and Rada, Machine Learning
If any man, without the knowledge of
the owner of a garden,
fell a tree in a garden he shall pay half a mina in money.
- Code of
Hammurabi, circa 1792 B.C.
Have
you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky,
How beautiful it is?
All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness
There is a poem, there is a song.
Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring.
When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with
The music of many leaves,
Which in due season fall and are blown away.
And this is the way of life.
- Krishnamurti
All a green willow, willow,
All a green willow is my garland.
- John Heywood, The Green Willow
Birth, life and death - each took
place on the hidden side of a leaf.
- Toni Morrison
When I can go just
where I want to go,
There is a copse of birch
trees that I know;
And, as in Eden Adam walked with God,
When in that quiet aisle my feet have
trod
I have found peace among the
silver trees,
Known
comfort in the cool kiss of the breeze
Heard music
in its whisper, and have known
Most certainly that I was not alone!
- Father Andrew, The Birch Copse
Links and References
Arborsmith Studios Trees as art,
architecture, and sculpture. Take a Look!
The
Celtic Wisdom of Trees. By Jane Gifford.
Cloud Hands: Tai Chi
Chuan and Qi Qong
Cowper, Wordsworth, Clare: The
Politics of Trees. By Tim Fulford. 33K.
Fairies: Plant Lore
Eileen Holland.
Fall
Leaves: Poetry of Color in the Woods
The Five Sacred Trees.
A musical composition by John Williams.
Richard St. Barbe Baker, Ph.D., 1889 - 1982. A forester who help organize
reforestation projects around the world. He wrote over 30 books. Leader of the
the organization: Men of the Trees. Billions of trees have been planted
as a result of reforestation projects he encouraged, inspired or led. The International Tree Foundation: Men of the
Trees.
Forest
Information on the World Wide Web
Fruit and Nut Trees Red Bluff, California. The
Red Bluff Notebooks by Michael P. Garofalo. Links, references, local
information, observations.
Fruits and Nuts - Quotes for Gardeners
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. By James A.
Frazier. Introduction by George Stocking. New York, Penguin Books, 1998.
Originally published in 1890. 944 pages. ISBN: 0140189319.
The limitations and inaccuracies of this work are known by
savvy anthropologists today; nevertheless, a seminal work in general folklore, with
many stories and legends of interest to those that find tree worship of interest.
Green Man: The Archetype of Our Oneness with the Earth. By William
Anderson. Photography by Clive Hicks. London, Harper Collins, c 1990. 176 pages,
bibliography, notes. "Beautifully illustrated in colour as well as black
and white, and connected with a BBC Omnibus documentary, Green Man is the record of
a quest for the archetype through folklore, religion, art and architecture, from
prehistory to the present."
The Healing Energy of Trees. By Patrice
Bouchardon.
Homage to Trees, Trees for Wisdom
How to Grow a Chair: The Art of Tree Topiary. By
Richard Reames and Barbara Delbol. Arborsmith
Studios, 1998. 106 pages.
International Society of Arboriculture
Information and Links.
Madrynns' Tree
Page: Poetry, Prose, Quotes, Journal, Links. A very good selection of
poems and prose about trees.
The Man Who Planted Trees
By Jean Giono (1895-1970). A heartwarming story about the impact
of one man, Elzeard Bouffier, who planted trees from 1900-1946, in the area where the Alps
thrust down into Provence, France.
My Life, My Trees. By Richard St. Barbe Baker. London,
England, Lutterworth Press, 1970..
My Shade Garden. By
Rebecca Green.
Mystical World Wide Web - Trees
Mythical Plants of the Middle Ages, James L. Matterer.
The National Arbor Day Foundation
National Arborist's Association
Oak Woodland
Sounds - California Trees
On Trees
Lore and legends on many kinds of trees.
Orchards and Vineyards Red Bluff,
California
Organizations that Plant Trees
Useful list.
Plant-It 2000
Plant-It 2000 is an international nonprofit tree-planting foundation
dedicated to properly planting, maintaining and protecting as many indigenous trees as
possible worldwide.
Readings to Uplift a Gardener's
Spirits. Prepared by Michael P. Garofalo. An annotated
bibliography in progress. From the Spirit of Gardening Website.
Red Oaks and Black Birches: The Science and Lore of Trees.
By R. Rupp. Pownal, Vermont, Garden Way, 1990. 276 pages.
ISBN: 0882666207.
A Reunion of Trees. By S. A. Spongberg.
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1990. 270 pages.
Sacred Places:
Trees and the Sacred.
Sacred Trees
15K.
Sacred Trees. By Nathaniel Altman. San Francisco, Sierra Club
Books, c 1994. 244 pages, index, bibliography, list of organizations, illustrations,
drawings, black and white photos. Chapter Headings include: Sacred:
Animism and Beyond, Cosmic Trees, Home of the Gods, Ancestral Trees, Trees of Fertility,
Trees as Providers, Trees that Heal, Trees of Wisdom, Trees for Transformation, and Sacred
Trees: The Future.
Sacred Trees, Oghams
and Celtic Symbolism. By Morgan La Fey. A monthly calendar based on
trees.
Sacred Woods and the Lore of Trees Very interesting presentations about the historical uses, lore, and magical properties of many types of trees.
Shrub
4U - Trees Lots of links about shrubs and small trees.
The Simple Act of Planting a Tree:
A Citizen Forester's Guide to Healing Your Neighborhood, Your City, and Your World.
Anonymous. Published by Tree People. This is an on-line text version of the
book.
The Spirit of Trees.
Stories, folktales, essays, curricular resources, poems and links about the
symbolic
and aesthetic dimensions of trees. Outstanding links to folktales,
stories, and legends about trees.
Tongues in Trees: Studies in Literature and Ecology. By Kim
Taplin. Devon, England, Green Books, 1989. 222 p. An excellent commentary on
the role of trees in life, literature, and the artist's inspirations. A fine
collection of quotes and insightful comments on the writings on the following authors:
John Keats, John Clare, William Barnes, John Ruskin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Richard
Jefferies, Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas, E. M. Forester, John Fowles, Ivor Gurney, David
Jones, Andrew Young, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Frances Horovitz.
Tree and Plant Lore Tree lore,
folklore, links, bibliography.
Trees and Plant Lore: MyThing Links by
Kathleen Jenks. Annotated links, artwork, music ... interesting.
Tree Information on the Internet: A Master Index.
TreeLink An outstanding web site. It is well organized and
provides information, news, forums,
a bibliography,
volunteer opportunities, articles, tree guides, job listings, and over 1,800 links.
"This site was created
to provide information, research, and networking for people working in
urban and
community forestry. For the researcher, the arborist, the community group leader,
the volunteer-our
purpose is to inform,
educate, and inspire." Presented by Pepper
Provenzano.
(Mr. Provenzano and I agreed on 12/8/2001 to share quotations about trees
between our websites.)
Tree Medicine, Tree Magic. By Ellen Evert Hopman.
Illustrated by Diana Green. Custer Washington,
Phoenix Publishing Co., 1992.
176 pages. ISBN: 0919345557.
The Tree Mythology Grid - The
Mystical World Wide Web
The Tree Pages: In
Celebration of Trees By Henri D. Grissino-Mayer.
The Tree Guide: The
Natural History of Trees Facts on 800 kinds of trees, tree care,
news, science, links.
Tree Stories: A Collection of Extraordinary Encounters.
Edited by Warren Jacobs and Karen I. Shragg.
Hygeine, Colorado, Sunshine Press, 2002.
Tree Symbolism in
American Literature. By Michael Goeller. 43K.
Tree Wisdom. By Jacqueline Memory Paterson.
Thorsons Pub., 1997. 288 pages. ISBN: 0722534086.
Trees, A Celebration. By Jill Fairchild, Editor. New York,
Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1989.
Trees and Poetry:
Children's Poetry
Trees for the Future - Quotations
The Trees in My Forest. By Bernd Heinrich.
Harper Perennial Library, 1998. 237 pages. ISBN: 0060929421.
Trees: Living
Links to the Classical Past. By John M. McMahon.
Trees: Lore, Myths,
Magick, Legends, Esoterica
Trees for Healing: Harmonizing with Nature for Personal Growth and
Planetary Balance. By Pamela Louise Chase and Jonathan Pawlik.
North Hollywood, California, Newcastle Publishing Co., Inc., 1991. 257p.
Notes, bibliography, list of organizations. The lore and magical aspects of
trees.
Trees for Life Good for
teachers. Great Links!
Trees: Lore, Myths,
Magick, Legends, Esoterica
Trees - Quotes for Gardeners I 70K+
Trees - Quotes for Gardeners II 70K+
Under the Greenwood Tree
Medieval folklore about trees.
White Dragon
Magazine: The Dragon's Hoard
A World Community of Old Trees
An Eco-Art Project in Progress by June Julian. Nice collections of
artwork.
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Spirituality and Concerns of the Soul
Simplicity and the Simple Life
Pulling
Onions
Quips, Maxims and Observations by Michael P. Garofalo
Haiku Poetry - Links and References
Cliches for Gardeners and Farmers
The
History of Gardening Timeline
From
Ancient Times to the 20th Century
Short Poems and Haiku by Michael P. Garofalo
Quotes for Gardeners
Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Poetry, Maxims, Quips,
Cliches, Adages, Wisdom
A
Collection Growing to Over 2,000 Quotes, Arranged by 105 Topics
Many
of the Documents Include Recommended Readings and Internet Links.
Compiled
by Michael P. Garofalo
Distributed on the Internet by Michael P. Garofalo
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Contributions, and Suggestions
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Tiger, Hidden Tiger, Beginning Program, Level 2, Valley Spirit T'ai Chi Ch'uan
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