April 2010
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Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. —Herman Hesse
Apr 22nd
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“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them...”
– Kahlil Gibran
Apr 22nd
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Apr 17th
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World's 10 oldest living trees →
“My profession is always to be alert, to find God in nature, to know God’s lurking places, to attend to all the oratorios and the operas in nature.” —Henry David Thoreau
Apr 12th
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April's life-form of the Month: Trees
I have a thing for trees. Anyone looking at the images here can see that. Years ago I had an encounter with a Giant Sequoia I hadn’t met. It’s documented in The Sainthood of Sequoias. Today I came across a piece in the New York Times by Olivia Judson, an evolutionary biologist. She has picked trees as the life-form of the month for April. I’ll link to the full text but here are...
Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 1st
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