“There is a lot to learn from trees: their graceful free spirit when they fluidly sway in the breeze, their munificence when they open-heartedly give us shade and sustenance, their dauntlessness in the wildest and most tumultuous of storms, their endurance during a scathing drought and, in particular, their forbearance when we go about destroying them without a second thought.”
-The Little Mermaid, MMXVIII
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Druidry… I like it 🧜♀️
Most assuredly!😇
Start writing your Ogham. Equinox is on the 23rd.
Hey, that is a very short and such a deep post. You really nailed it in a few words! I like your profile picture by the Way.
Your new follower! Would be visiting you a lot.
How wonderful to meet you in the blogosphere, dear Bushra! Thank you very much for the kind words. I look forward to seeing you often here.
Have a beautiful day ahead!
Love and hugs X
Love and hugs to you as well dear friend!
I wholeheartedly agree.
A couple of my favourite poetic lines from one of my favourite poems are these lines from Joyce Kilmer’s poem Trees:
I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree…
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
I have always loved that poem…😊❤️
Love your comment😊
Beautiful, Dracul
Thanks very much. 🙂
Hi Christopher, thank you for sharing a few of your favorite lines from the famous poem with all of us.
Have a good day!
Love and hugs X
You’re welcome. ❤
Thank you kindly. 😃
Anyone called Van Helsing 👍
Thank you.😆
Love ya work mate 🧛♂️
Some people don’t like posts with negative elements, but I found this one to be accurate and honest. I recently saw a video of a standup comic, La Roche by name, who said pessimists live shorter lives — but their perception is more accurate. It’s kind of a tossup whether it’s better to be a long-lived optimist or the other alternative. Personally, I value honesty. Thank you.
I’m not sure if this quote has a pessimistic connotation or not but it sure does point out how, in trees, are hidden all the jewels of wisdom. In the last phrase, I have highlighted the insensibilty and the short-sightedness of human beings when they cut down trees for immediate urbanisation. If this is not a veracity, albeit a cruel one, I don’t know what it is. Pessimism? As you’ve called it? Choose what word soever you please, the truth is that we are doing great harm upon trees.
I appreciate your interaction. I hope you come back again. Have a nice weekend!
Love and hugs X
I merely meant by “pessimism” that you tell the unattractive truth about people and don’t sugarcoat it. I love trees, too. The exchange of gases, breathing with trees, is part of the natural scheme. They give us O2, and in return we give them CO2 in a symbiosis we can really feel when we enter a wood or arboretum. I dunno how much is left of the Amazon Rain Forest, but they were saying that without it, we’d be unable to breathe.
If you get a chance, please check out my site: https://beautyistruth562113401.wordpress.com/ I started it with a view to having anyone and everyone drop a poem about the nature of reality. So far, only I have contributed. Thank you.
I agree, Trees have always been my friends.. And their healing balm has always been my saviour..
Wishing you well my friend ❤
Hi Sue, how is lovely September treating you? It is true that trees have physical, emotional and spiritual healing properties.
Thanks for stopping by, sweetheart!
Hugs and kisses X
September is Good.. And you too take care.. 🌈🌹🌈
Trees are fascinating creatures, I recently heard they communicared with each other and can protect each other from diseases or storms and other dangers, thanks to their roots.
Wow.. That’s magical!
You are right! Trees do support one another. In ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’, Peter Wohlleben describes how a mother tree suckles her children, she feeds the young tree just enough sugars produced by its own photosynthesis to prevent it from dying. Trees in a forest of the same species are connected by the roots, which grow together like a network. Their root tips have highly sensitive brain-like structures that can distinguish whether the root that it encounters in the soil is its own root, the root of another species, or the roots of its own species. If it encounters its own kind, there is a flow from healthy trees to sick trees so that they will have an equal measure of food and energy available. It’s unbelievable, almost magical, as Favoursweet said.
Thank you for the comment. I’m certain it has enlightened others in the community as well.
Love and hugs X
Fascinating!!
Love and hugs
Juju roijoyeux
“munificence”
Great word. Hadn’t thought of the generosity of trees but those with abundant shade are, do, well, do so with munificence!
Thanks!
Thank you Tim. The generosity of trees is ‘Nulli Secundus’, Latin for second to none.😇
Mind blowing post!!
Thank you!
Plants and trees will also survive the next climate change while they are much older and intelligent than our own human species!
I agree!🙂
So true!
Thank you! X
Well said. Have you read the Giving Tree? You captured the story in a few lines.
Hi there, I’ve never read the book but it is on my TBR list. I’ve heard that it is a tender story about the unconditional love a tree has for a boy. It should be quite touching.
Thanks for stopping by. Have a good day!
Hugs and kisses X
Trees are some of my favourite ‘people’. A walk in the woods always leaves me calmer and centred…lovely post! Thank you so much…🙏
We all know how good being in nature can make us feel, right? The soothing sounds of the forest, the woodsy scent of the trees, the playful sunlight flickering through the leaves, the fresh, clean air — these things give us a sense of comfort. They palliate our stress and help us to relax and to think more clearly. Being in nature among trees can restore our mood, give us back our energy and vitality, refresh and rejuvenate us.
In Japan, they practise forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku. Shinrin in Japanese means “forest”, and yoku means “bath”. So shinrin-yoku means bathing in the forest atmosphere. It is simply being in nature, connecting with it through our senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. Shinrin-yoku functions like a bridge. By opening our senses, it bridges the gap between us and the natural world.
Just like you, I make it a must to go for a regular walk in nature. I have learnt that wilderness is a friend, a healer and a muse that asks for nothing and gives everything in return.
Thank you for sharing your experience with trees, Patti.
Hugs and love X
What a little lovely image: to bathe in the forest atmosphere! And so apt: it really does feel exactly like that…thank you so much for such a lovely and informative response…❤️
Great post – I love to hug trees!
Tree hugging affects our well-being in wondrous ways-especially if we embrace it imagining it blotting out all our worries while at the same time we absorb all the strength and stability that the tree embodies.
Thank you for stopping by, Janet.
Love and hugs X
That’s great! I am facing surgery tomorrow, and I shall soon go out and hug one of my dear trees. Thank you for that!
Oh how beautiful! Always love trees… feels like the trees were made to become soul mates with the humans 😁
Hi Liavi, I believe trees are alive, aware and responsive. They have a spirit and a vibrational energy which resonate with honest, pure and enlightened human beings.🙂
So true… they give hopes and speaks to each soul 💜
Yep, I’ve learned much from trees, having spent many hours raking their leaves and trimming their branches. A pet tree is not much different from any other pet. They require care, attention, and some discipline.
Too right, mate!
Growing a plant requires a certain level of optimism, patience, hard work, discipline and nurturing. However, the joy of watching the seeds you have sowed sprout into tiny plants to gradually transform into fully-grown ones is imponderable.
Have a nice week! X
Superb! Splendid post! Very true! Loved it! Love!
Thank you! :))
You are most welcome!
Thanks keep sharing…
What do you love to listen…I mean type of music?
Please share..
Hi there,
That’s a very difficult question because firstly, I absolutely enjoy listening to music and secondly, my music taste is wide and varied. The type of music I listen largely depends on my current mood, so I can’t pick up only a handful of them. I’m sorry.
But what about you? Do you have a preference? 🙂
Hard rock and country music
I love trees, just like I love your site!
Aw! What an incredibly sweet thing to say! Thank you very much.
Love and hugs X
We have a lot of very old trees on our property, and I love to wander around beneath them and stare up into their branches, like the picture you chose here. I find it very comforting:-)
This is one of the best things in life. Whiling away an afternoon, lying in the shade of a tree, looking up through the branches, feeling the sun hot on your face through the leaves and maybe even falling asleep for a while. 🙂
Absolutely!
Wonderfully poignant and so very honest!
Hi dear, how have you been?
Thank you! X
I agree. There’s a biblical verse in which a tree is described, standing, growing its roots deeply in the ground on the banks of a stream. A reflection of being constantly fed by wisdom and truth, like a tree standing by the waters. Great trees teach us so much. Hugs to you from Texas, USA.
That’s right. If we observe heedfully, trees do teach us some extraordinary life lessons.
Love and hugs X
We can learn a lot from our family who have mastered “being still.” Thank you for posting this.
They have also mastered the art of humility, the sense of community, the spirit of independence, regeneration and adaptability, making them the oldest living survivors in the world. 🙂
I wrote this some time ago, you might enjoy it. When I look at the leaves of the trees and compare them to the skin of my hands I often wonder if there is some kind of connection. Trees are teachers of the highest order.
So powerful and beyond true:)
Thank you! X
I love this. We have had to cut down some dying trees that were overhanging our house and endangering us—but I wept at the loss of our dear old friends.
Aw! It’s always a little disquieting when our old friends are cut down for some reason or another. Why don’t you try replacing those with new plants? 🙂
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Beautiful, as words of truth are always beautiful..
Thank you very much for the share! X
Beautiful. Reblogged. x
Thanks for the share! 🙂
Trees stand for so much, but still remain strong. Trees are #1 on my Wonders of the World List!
I do agree! We can shake the branches of a tree but not its inner spirit.
And I agree right back👍🏾
We can certainly learn a lot from trees. Maybe there is a reason we should stop and smell the roses – or closely observe the trees. 🙂
Very true! There is no bigger inspiration than Mother Nature herself.
Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the most prolific and renowned architects of the 20th century, a radical designer and intellectual advised his students thus:
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
Thank you for your comment. Have a good day! X
What beautiful poetry. This will be a classic.
Thank you so much!
Hugs XO
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“….but only God can make a tree!” Love your post.
God is the creator of all things bright and beautiful, wise and wonderful, including trees. 🙂
Words worth reflecting on. Thank you.
You’re welcome. 🙂
Amen, Thanks be to God for trees and their fruit and for those who planted them before us in faith of what was to come without seeing it!
Amen! As the old saying goes “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
Their peaceful on a summer day while sitting under it enjoying its shade.
Very true!
That’s some loveliness coming from your pen 🤓
Thank you!🤗
The tree lives to give and to sacrifice, at first blush. It leaves little seedlings, in unexpected places, when it is ravaged.
That’s right!🙂
I feel you here, I hate seeing a tree cut down.
Same here, dear Simon!
How are you?🙂
I’m ok thanks dear mermaid… What are you up to these days? 😀
Wonderful! We have indeed so much to learn from trees.
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I so agree with your beautifully written post. Trees are our most giving asset. I even think the trees agree.
2000 YEARS A TREE
© Barbara Grace Lake 2018
I rose from sediment and mold
Two thousand years ago and more
I fought with elements, made war
Against all forces, known-unknown
Those animals whose step would crush,
A bolt of lightning’s blasting fire
Colossal creatures near my grove,
Perhaps unseen, oh let them pass
They’re huge, so big and I’m so small
A giant foot directly up
It’s coming down. It’s crushing me
Into the earth. I’m smothering
All living things are running wild
The lightning, thunder deafening
I smell the scorch of burning trees
Not me, not yet, please let me grow
A bolt of hell fire strikes the ground
My branches burn. It hurts, it hurts
The river’s rising to my feet
I send out roots to hold the mud
But can they grasp? One just let go
And now another one. Dig deep
Entrench, hold mud, hold earth, hold tight
If not our life will wash away
Two thousand years and more I’ve lived
To grow immense. three hundred feet
My shady paths give life to ferns
Green carpet grows abundantly
When looking up men cannot doubt
They’ve sensed a godlike majesty
My girth provides for many home
Ten men it took to measure me
For cutting saws? They shred the air
I hear the screams of sister trees
Now at my feet, the saw’s first bite
Two thousand years of life erased.
Wow! What a beautiful, perfectly-written poem! Thank you for sharing with all of us. Did you pen this down yourself, Barbara?
Did I pen it down myself? Do you mean, did I write it? Yes. It is my work. Thank you for liking it.
It is perfect. Well done! X
Thank you!
In love & totally agreed 🙂
Thanks a lot Luìs! I hope life is treating you well.
Hugs X
You are very welcome! & thanks too ❤ I do the best I can 🙂 Keep in touch*
Treemendous! And when we end a tree it is a tree-him-endous pity.
A ‘tree-him-endous’ pity indeed!
That’s so beautiful 😊🌸
Thanks darling! X
Trees and forests provide such a soothing canopy of rejuvenation when walking and strolling throughout a forest. Simply sitting under a tree on a hot summer’s afternoon and listening as the leaves rustle in the breeze can fix many problems. Or at least provide the fertile ground to start the healing process.
So true!😊
Träd är vackra 🙂
Stood beneath a 200 year old Redwood not long ago. The smaller ones, babies, are still 300. Drove abouot an hour and stood where an ancient mountain exploded, leveling and petrifying 2500 year old trees. Three and half million years ago. The wisdom of trees indeed. And the stories they could tell…and the shelter they have provided from many a storm.
A beautiful piece of prose. I, too, love trees from desert to forest. 🌵🌳
Hi dear, I hope everything’s alright at your end. I’m also very much in love with trees. I spent part of my childhood helping my father grow vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants in our garden. While being a great bonding activity for us mostly on Sunday afternoons, it taught me some significant life skills such as patience and responsibility.
Have a nice day, sweetheart.
Love and hugs X
I have a tummy bug this week but enjoying the cooler weather in the swamp! In Scotland, my uncle used to plant every type of vegetable and fruit in our family garden. I loved stealing the berries and rhubarb. My Nana did wonderful things with the produce from boiling fresh beets to making marrow and ginger jam. Love and hugs back to you, dear. K x
Aw! I hope your’re feeling much better today. There is no doubt that growing one’s own fruits and vegetables brings an immense sense of satisfaction and bliss. We feel more connected to nature and become more aware of what we are eating, or the efforts that go into the process. With over 1/3 of all food produced globally going to waste, it even makes us think twice before throwing away food. I hope more and more people start their fruit or vegetable garden. This will create a happier, healthier home-and at large, a happier world for our children.
Have a great week, honey! XO
Thank you so much. I had a busy week but wish you a good weekend, my dear.
Nature don’t lie.
True! 🙂
This is such a beautiful read.
Thank you Gikonyo. 🙂
Amen! Beautiful post that says it all.
Love it! And it is a lofty goal indeed to become as tolerant as a tree 🙂
Thank you! But those exceptionally stunning pictures of the marvels of nature on your blog tells me that our natural environment is your best friend, isn’t it? Visiting your site this Monday has certainly been one of the best things that I did so far. 🙂
Thanks so much ! Nature is my best friend. It’s where I feel at home 🙂
Amazing post. Eventually we can learn from everything and anything 🌸
Beautiful sentiment and just love that picture, little Mermaid ❤ We love trees too. I climbed them a lot, when I was younger, but Granny is afraid of heights, so she just embraces them 🙂
Pawkisses for a Happy Weekend 🙂 ❤
Beautiful words and concepts, Little Mermaid. I discovered you somewhere in the wide web. Now I am following you. I like when profound concepts and rhythm intertwine.
All the best
From Roman West
Giovanni
Well said. Trees are extremely important and beautiful too.
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Lovely!
A sweet and thought provoking piece.
If I may.. can you help me with the process of adding the copyrights reserved at the bottom? Thank you so much.
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I love trees! 🙂
That last phrase was powerful.
On the last day of the world
I would want to plant a tree
W.S. Merwin, from “Place,” The Rain in the Trees (Knopf 1988)
That tree looks like it was hit by lightening.
So true!
Extremely true I strongly agree.
I often wonder if I was a tree before I was this. How lucky I’d feel and how much time I would have known
Hi Urvashi, I love your poem. Trees are amazing. I wonder what stories old trees could tell us.
Bless you.
Roland Legge
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree
Joyce Kilmer 1913
This was beautiful with quote and photo! Hope all is well with you, dear. 🌳🍁
The Memory of Trees
Agreed! Have you read “The Secret Life of Plants”?
Beautiful and so true. Thanks for visiting and liking my posts! 😊
Thanks Jennifer and you’re welcome! X
All that is in this world for men to use is a gift from God. And to make use them, as we have been so commissioned, without honor and appreciation is an affront to God.
-Alan
I agree with you Alan.😊
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Thanks for the reblog Sylvain! X
My pleasure 😉
Wow! What a beautiful piece indeed! It well describes the life of a tree! Blessings! 🙂
Thank you Tammy!
Hugs X
Most welcome dear!
I love this!!
Thank you!
Preach. 👏🏾👏🏾
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Beautiful dear Urvashi!
XxX
Thank you Patty! X
Thanks for sharing!
Very Interesting!
Thank you Anthony. XO
That’s sooooo true!! I’m in love with trees too..
Trees were made to be loved and admired, just like, us, women..Haha!
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