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TREE SPIRITS

TREES GIVE US A MOST CRUCIAL ELEMENT FOR OUR SURVIVAL: OXYGEN

"And see the peaceful trees extend
Their myriad leaves in leisure dance
They bear the weight of sky and cloud
Upon the fountain of their veins." ~ Kathleen Raine, Envoi

"I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree." ~ Joyce Kilmer

TREE DNA

In 1996, Dr. Eleanor White began studying tree DNA. It's hard to believe, but each tree has unique DNA. Tree DNA is surprisingly similar to human DNA. It has the same basic building blocks. It has the same bases. They're arranged in the same way. The genetic code is the same in trees as in humans. Because trees have unique DNA it makes accurate matching possible. Dr White's challenge has been to find the sections of DNA that are optimal for tree ID.

Check out the video on science.gc.ca

Summary; DNA analysis may soon be used to trap illegal loggers.

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Permalink Reply by AuroRa / Little Crow Feather on March 3, 2012 at 7:03am

Julia Butterfly Hill - Adventures In Treesitting

This award-winning documentary reveals the extraordinary journey of a woman who lived 200 feet up in a redwood tree for two years to save the thousand year-old tree from destruction.

Part 1 - Julia Butterfly Hill - Adventures In Treesitting

Part 2 - Julia Butterfly Hill - Adventures In Treesitting

http://youtu.be/DT0LkvYNnfY

Part 3 - Julia Butterfly Hill - Adventures In Treesitting

http://youtu.be/UXc_1V6-u4I

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) From Leaves of Grass Part 9: Song of the Redwood-Tree

Song of the Redwood-Tree first appeared in Harper's in 1874. Whitman included it in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass.

Permalink Reply by AuroRa / Little Crow Feather on June 12, 2012 at 7:45pm

Permalink Reply by Dorothy Peer Promiscuo on June 19, 2012 at 7:07pm

I love this advice from a tree, LCF, and the videos are wonderful--thank you so much for sharing, L&L, D

Permalink Reply by AuroRa / Little Crow Feather on June 19, 2012 at 10:08pm

Permalink Reply by AuroRa / Little Crow Feather on August 9, 2012 at 6:43am

What is a tree worth?

It depends who you ask...

Permalink Reply by AuroRa / Little Crow Feather on August 9, 2012 at 7:03am

People who will not sustain trees will soon live in a world which cannot sustain people.
-- Bryce Nelson

Give me a land of boughs in leaf, a land of trees that stand; where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
-- A.E. Housman

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
-- Bill Vaughan

By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration.
-- E.F. Schumacher

The forests are the flags of nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feeling. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that some time an immortal pine will be the flag of a united and peaceful world.
-- Enos A. Mills

Permalink Reply by AuroRa / Little Crow Feather on August 9, 2012 at 7:14am

Trees Give Free Hugs

Hug a tree today!

Permalink Reply by AuroRa / Little Crow Feather on August 31, 2012 at 1:21am

A tree overshadowed by other trees
is starved of light and loses its fruit and leaves.
It dries and slowly dies
and becomes a tree despised.
The tree that stands alone,
birds soon make it home,
never stunted it continues to grow,
the sun and rain it intimately knows.
The same is true for you,
don’t allow yourself beneath another’s shoe.
Be a leader, a follower never be,
and grow like strongest and tallest of trees.

Jacob
http://jacobisrael.org/
.

Permalink Reply by AuroRa / Little Crow Feather on October 20, 2012 at 6:44am

༺♥༻ “Any fool can destroy trees.

They cannot defend
themselves or run away. And
few destroyers of trees ever
plant any; nor can planting
avail much toward
restoring our grand aboriginal
giants. It took more than
three thousand
years to make some of the
oldest of the Sequoias, trees
that are still
standing in perfect strength
and beauty, waving and
singing in the mighty
forests of the Sierra.”
- - John Muir (author)