Trees Please

Aesculus x hippocastanum ‘Fort McNair’. Photo Ulysses Tree Planter “There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.” —Gustave Flaubert

Washington Hawthorn from Arbor Day Seedling, Food Source for Cedar Waxwings/Photo Jim DeLellis “Is the tree as it rises delighted with its many branches, each one like a poem?” — Mary Oliver

Cornus kousa 'Satomi' Planted With Diameter Size of a Pencil in 1999/Photo Christine Banigan   “For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.” — Martin Luther [...]

Great Elm, Crotona Park/Matthew Lopez-Jensen   “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 emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary [...]

In Memory of Ryan Pendelton/Photo Stephen Prée   “Love shook my heart Like the wind on the mountain Troubling the oak-trees” — Sappho

Tree Hugger/Photo Ariel Farber   “Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being." — Victor Hugo

Tulip Tree/Photo Noreen Riordan, birdsong landscape design   “I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible, loving, human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like [...]

Yellow Birch-A Real Live ENT!/Photo Steve Harris   “Land really is the best art.” — Andy Warhol

Fall Near Hemlock Lake/Photo Noreen Riordan, birdsong landscape design   “You inherit the autumns, folded like festive clothing in the memories of poets; and all the winters, like abandoned fields, bequeath you their quietness.” — Rainier Maria Rilke

Sequoia Art. Photo Terry Hawkridge   “In Japanese kodama, the spirit of a tree, refers to a feeling of special kinship with the heart of a tree. It is our deepest respect for the tree… that we may offer the tree a second life.” —George [...]