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Daily Question, July 21

How do I love trees? Let me count the ways…

  • Deedee

    the tree: silent yet powerful, small yet giant, majestic yet simple, not male nor female, omnipresent, hearing all, seeing all, knowing all

  • TrishO

    Let me count the ways ……Thank you for sharing the oxygen you produce. The green that soothes my eyes. The breeze through your leaves. The colours of autumn.

  • Melissa

    My twin and I grew up playing in pepper trees and oaks in California. I see and feel trees as scared beings . I touch the ones that call out to me and feel their energy and express my love for them. I feel trees are my guardians of hope.

  • pkr

    Love, love Redwood Trees. I am so blessed to live amongst these beautiful giants. I am in awe everyday as I pass by them. I am blessed to have them as my friends. Thank you to the Universe for these magnificent trees, I am humbled and honored to share this planet with them. ?

  • Malag

    So much. I find peace and belonging there. More with deciduous than conifer. The cycle of life written on their leafed canvas.

  • Dusty Su

    I live in a loft that looks out into a tree. I have been transported into a place I do not want to be because of Coronavirus, and feel off-footed, sad, alone, and am in lockdown. But the tree is a friend and teacher to me. She is bare and bleak, but with each passing day, new green shoots adorn her branches. The birds sit with her. She waves to the hail, winds, and storms. She soaks up the light. She keeps me company and I watch my evolution manifest itself through her.

  • Don Jones

    I love to ‘forest bathe’ – a total immersion in the forest. And nor should we underestimate the role of the Bodhi tree in Gautama’s awakening…

  • Anonymous

    giving is their very nature :they give home to countless little crawlers and their branches house the homes of birds. they give oxygen just through being alive. their beauty touches eye and heart, they cool the earth and strech like an umbrella over the families and friends who spread out their blankets for a shared meal under their wings. and they shelter those who walk in the forest with broken hearts, easing their pain in secret yet unfailing ways…

  • Evan
    From a tiny seed, a giant is born. The massive conifers of the pacific northwest began life hundreds, maybe thousands, of years ago. Starting life as tender seedlings that escaped infancy in tact and grew into sky scrapers. Receiving just the right amount of water, sun, protection and nutrients. These trees truly are a world wonder. Although the last 200 hundred plus years have seen most of the mature trees taken down for lumber, they still forge on. My hope is that forests continue to be ...

    From a tiny seed, a giant is born. The massive conifers of the pacific northwest began life hundreds, maybe thousands, of years ago. Starting life as tender seedlings that escaped infancy in tact and grew into sky scrapers. Receiving just the right amount of water, sun, protection and nutrients. These trees truly are a world wonder. Although the last 200 hundred plus years have seen most of the mature trees taken down for lumber, they still forge on. My hope is that forests continue to be replanted and protected so that generations from now will also be able to marvel at these giants. It is humbling to be in the presence of such ancient life, life that looks down on us the way we look down on ants.

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  • Hot Sauce
    1. Trees take in carbon dioxide and send out oxygen. Because of trees, we can breathe. 2. Trees, by taking in greenhouse gases, keep the earth from overheating. 3. Trees provide useful medicines for injury and illness. 4. Trees are aesthetically pleasing and a reflection of God's glory. 5. Trees are a safe haven for many forms of wildlife. 6. Trees help us build shelters by providing us with wood. 7. Trees feed off soil from dead plants, animal waste, dead animals, and mineral nutrien...

    1. Trees take in carbon dioxide and send out oxygen. Because of trees, we can breathe.
    2. Trees, by taking in greenhouse gases, keep the earth from overheating.
    3. Trees provide useful medicines for injury and illness.
    4. Trees are aesthetically pleasing and a reflection of God’s glory.
    5. Trees are a safe haven for many forms of wildlife.
    6. Trees help us build shelters by providing us with wood.
    7. Trees feed off soil from dead plants, animal waste, dead animals, and mineral nutrients. Then, we eat of its fruit so that we can live. Then, we give off waste. Trees make us a part of the cycles of interdependence in nature.
    8. Trees keep the whole ecosystem thriving.
    9. Trees send W-wave signals to other trees when threatened. It’s almost as if the trees are aware.
    10. Trees allow us to make fire with firewood.

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  • KC

    Thank you for this beautiful question and thoughtful answers. I will make time to be more mindful of the trees in my life today …

  • Zenith

    I actually hug trees. There is a fire tree where I live that I have been watering because it wasn’t getting it. Doesn’t help the tree but it makes me feel better. Management finally got the sprinklers fixed after they saw me doing it but I think it is too late for the tree. But the grass is finally green again.

  • Michele

    Oooooh, I LOVE today’s question! I love trees! I planted two weeping willows at the PA house – they’re my favorite. I love the big old oak trees with Spanish moss down here in Florida. I love birch trees. I remember years ago I had bought a book Bough Down: Praying With Tree Spirits by Dolfyn & Zu.
    Sadly I just visited the tree where my son’s best friend hung himself. We placed flowers there and I hugged that tree.

    • Trish

      I trust the tree assisted in a more peaceful death.?

    • Michele

      I forgot to mention I also love watching Treehouse Masters with Pete Nelson:)

  • Katrina

    I grew up in the Texas Panhandle where there were no trees naturally. My daddy planted maples in our front yard that colored the fall, shaded the spring and summer and gave new places for the snow to rest in winter. Year later my husband and I visited Muir Woods in California. Ahh – this is what life is supposed to be like. Sharing community with trees – living, breathing, neighbors and friends, caring and providing for each other.

  • devy
    Their strength, deeply rooted in the Earth, is an inspiration. Their trunk and branches are a wonder of nature because they stand sturdy and impenetrable most of the time, yet they can flex and sway with the wind when needed. Watching their cycles of growth, shedding of leaves, and re-flowering in the spring, people have long perceived trees as powerful symbols of life, death, and renewal. psychological effect that trees have on people. People who spend time outdoors, or even those who have acce...

    Their strength, deeply rooted in the Earth, is an inspiration. Their trunk and branches are a wonder of nature because they stand sturdy and impenetrable most of the time, yet they can flex and sway with the wind when needed. Watching their cycles of growth, shedding of leaves, and re-flowering in the spring, people have long perceived trees as powerful symbols of life, death, and renewal. psychological effect that trees have on people. People who spend time outdoors, or even those who have access to windows looking out at trees, have been shown to have better health than those who do not.

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  • Carla
    I’ve felt connected to trees since childhood. I enjoyed scampering up an apricot tree in my backyard like a squirrel & would then rest in her branches. I felt safe & protected from the terror in my house. Years later trees taught me vulnerability & resilience, as I watched them standing in their stark nakedness open to God’s trickle of love via faint sun beams, bending in winter’s harsh snow storms. Trees teach me to ground my taproot in the One who is Love. I don’t always st...

    I’ve felt connected to trees since childhood. I enjoyed scampering up an apricot tree in my backyard like a squirrel & would then rest in her branches. I felt safe & protected from the terror in my house. Years later trees taught me vulnerability & resilience, as I watched them standing in their stark nakedness open to God’s trickle of love via faint sun beams, bending in winter’s harsh snow storms. Trees teach me to ground my taproot in the One who is Love. I don’t always stand straight with good posture-but I stand. I stand

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  • Pilgrim

    Since I was a little girl, I have loved the companionship of trees. Back then, we lived on a “dead end” street, and there was a woods at the end of the gravel road. It was my hiding place where I could get away from a big family in a small house. It was like my personal cathedral. My love for trees has never abated. Their variety and energy, their deep rootedness and will to live bring meaning and connectedness to my life.

  • Howie Geib

    There is a secret language of trees. I have lived amongst them and it is magical. Their drive to survive and commitment to place. Their musical talent, generosity to their friends the birds, and fungi, and moss. Great friends to farmers generally, to squirrels, similarly, to small children who recognize a good climb when they come across one. Sentinels of the seasons, guardians of coasts, landmarks for hikers. There is a secret language of trees. I wish I knew it.

  • sunnypatti
    I have been a certified tree hugger since high school. I love trees and recognize their beauty and strength and ability to bend when necessary. Earlier this year, we bought some property in the country. It was winter when we found it, and there was a very large, dead-looking tree in the back. My boyfriend thought it would for sure have to come down, but I saw life in it. It is a pecan tree and is amazingly lush and beautiful now! I instantly felt connected to that tree. I was talking with one of...

    I have been a certified tree hugger since high school. I love trees and recognize their beauty and strength and ability to bend when necessary. Earlier this year, we bought some property in the country. It was winter when we found it, and there was a very large, dead-looking tree in the back. My boyfriend thought it would for sure have to come down, but I saw life in it. It is a pecan tree and is amazingly lush and beautiful now! I instantly felt connected to that tree. I was talking with one of my sisters about that same tree several months ago, and she said she loved trees because “they make us look up.” I love that.

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  • Trish

    1. You sway with the wind & invite me to dance
    2. You give me shelter from the heat & lovingly protect me
    3. You inspire me with your strength & dignity
    4. Girl, you are so gorgeous!
    5. Driving under a tunnel of trees is one of my all time favorite things.

    • Michele

      I love tree tunnels too!

    • Howie Geib

      A tunnel of trees! Yes! I am at our extended family summer home in Connecticut…and find myself this year an Elder for the first time. Just yesterday was reminiscing to a niece about how every street and lane in the town was lined with tall and broad elm trees, now of course long gone…but the way the street headed down to the shore was dark with a doorway to sunlight and a blue sea was something I will carry with me forever.

      • Trish

        Check you out taking on the role of the elder so gracefully… Celebrate tree tunnels?

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