Tree Quote

The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life and activity; it affords protection to all beings.

Buddhist Sutra

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Communion

This photograph is a view that I took as I gazed down the Devils Throat at the Uguazu Falls in Argentina. What a mystical experience

Tree Quote

A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. ... Absorb, absorb, absorb. That is the secret of the tree.
-- Deng Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao

Tree Quote

Gradually, the trees were reduced from living spirits to little more than timber sources.
Some of the ancient lore was passed on by oral tradition through a long line of country folk, albeit sometimes in a Christianised form to make it more acceptable to the 'authorities'. Much of it is missing, as is the case with the Beech. The only way we gain regain what was lost is to stop thinking of trees as merely timber and amenity. All the world would benefit if we are able to relate to trees fully once more: as our friends, our providers, our healers. But especially as creatures who have their own lives to lead and their own role to fulfill in the community of Earthly beings. Once we understand that, we will hopefully stop sabotaging their many contributions, and work side by side with these giant plants rather than merely exploiting them.

Anna Fraser

Tree Quote

We can see from the experience of Odin that the image of the tree was the template within which all of the sacred world could be apprehended. The tree was the framework within which one "flew" to these Otherworlds. And since the exploration of sacred space was also a quest into the nature of human consciousness, the tree was regarded as an image of the ways in which we, humans, are constructed psychically. It was a natural model for our deepest wisdom, our highest aspirations.

Brian Bates (Sacred Trees)