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 [...]
Autumn. Photo Peter Coats “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar. I love not man the less, But nature more.” [...]
Village of Lynbrook 9-11 Memorial/Photo Sue Bonomo “When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are [...]