Described as “One part acrobat, one part expert rope climber, one part tree physiologist, and several parts competitor and thrill seeker,” Mark Chisholm is well known in the climbing world. Mark has won the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) New Jersey Chapter Tree Climbing Championship [...]
Standing Tall and Spreading Wings. Photo Chris Brunt “I am looking at trees they may be one of the things I will miss most from the earth though many of the ones I have seen already I cannot remember and though I seldom embrace the [...]
Summer Sumac. Photo Ulysses Tree Planter “You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things. Why not go into the forest for a time, literally? Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be [...]
Stoneleigh, Villanova. Photo John Tweddle “Is the tree as it rises delighted with its many branches, each one like a poem?” —Mary Oliver
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