General Sherman, the biggest tree in the world
Urban Forests and Climate Change: Breakthrough Convening in Portland. Video.
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Memorial Conservation Arboreta
This is to establish the use of these words by TreeWonder 6/23/2015
Watch this space for the proposal and plans.
About Steve Sillett, preeminent canopy scientist
The Tallest, Strongest and Most Iconic Trees in the World | Travel | Smithsonian
Its bark is fire resistant. Its fruit is edible. It scoffs at the driest droughts. It shrugs, and another decade has passed. It is the baobab tree, one of the longest-living, strangest looking plants in the world
Source: The Tallest, Strongest and Most Iconic Trees in the World | Travel | Smithsonian
Bark: An Intimate Look at the World’s Trees | Brain Pickings
Tree bark may not sound like the most exciting or relatable of subjects but, in fact, it is both. Not only do we come in contact with it con
Source: Bark: An Intimate Look at the World’s Trees | Brain Pickings
Urban Forests and Climate Change | Climate Change Resource Center
Highly recommended site.
Urban Forests and Climate Change | Climate Change Resource Center
Go to a tree
Go to a tree, talk to the tree, touch the tree, embrace the tree, feel the tree. Just sit by the side of the tree, let the tree feel you, that you are a good man and you are not in a mood to harm.
By and by friendship arises and you will start feeling that when you come the quality of the tree immediately changes. You will feel it. On the bark of the tree you will feel tremendous energy moving when you come; when you touch the tree she is as happy as a child, as a beloved; when you sit by the tree you will feel many things. Soon you will be able if you are sad to come to the tree, and just in the presence of the tree your sadness will disappear.
Then only will you be able to understand that you are interdependent – you can make the tree happy and the tree can make you happy. And the whole of life is interdependent. This interdependence I call God, Lao Tzu calls Tao – this whole interdependence. God is not a person somewhere, this whole interdependence is God, Tao, dharma. The Vedas call it rit, the law. Whatsoever you like to call it, call it, but this interdependence is the whole thing.
~ Osho
…from “Tao: The Three Treasures”, Vol 1, Chapter 4 – Emptiness
Dancing Earth and Sky at Yosemite
Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo.
This can happen. A tree growing on a rock.
A Fierce Green Fire. A wonderful film about Aldo Leopold
A Fierce Green Fire tells stories of environmental activism – people trying to save the planet, their homes, their lives, the future. It chronicles grassroots and global movements building over five decades; connects all the causes to create a big-picture synthesis; explores how we got here and where we’re going. Ours is the time when humanity ran up against nature — the challenge before us is guiding spaceship earth, bringing our civilization into sustainable balance with the web of life that supports us.
The Hand of Pine Beetles, in the Fraser Experimental Forest, and The Foot of Sand, in Fraser Island, Austrailia
Both called “Fraser” and both suggestive of human appendages.
Significant? Naw, just fun. -furniss
