tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84641642012-01-22T12:11:30.613-08:00The purpose of this blog is to collect and connect together stories about trees. Every culture and society has had stories and mythologies about trees. If you have a personal, historical, annectdotal, or any wonderful, mundane or horrible story about a tree/trees please share it here.Gabriel Akagawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06666189564153702693noreply@blogger.comBlogger351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8464164.post-1096426360501070482010-03-28T19:50:00.000-07:002010-03-28T19:50:00.251-07:00

If you have a tree story to share, please: 1.Select x COMMENTS icon at this entry. 2.Select Post a Comment icon. 3.Write a tree story and it will be added it to this archive. -------------------------------or----------------------------------- 1.E-mail your story and/or image(s) to faketure@gmail.com -------------------Thank you for your support.------------------

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http://www.usbchainsaw.com/

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYktDghfoFM&feature=player_embedded

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February 2010 is dedicated to our friend Steve Meyer who has had a life-long connection to trees. He is an expert wood worker, craftsman, collector of tree leaves, tree stories and tree images. Thanks for these Steve.

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General Sherman in California is a Giant Sequioa measuring 275 feet (83.8 metres) tall

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   Photoshop? 

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O Trees, Trees, Trees," said Lucy, though she had not been intending to speak at all. "O Trees, wake, wake, wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come to me." Though there was not a breath of wind, they all stirred about her. The rustling noise of the leaves was almost like words. The nightingale stopped singing as if to listen to it. Lucy felt

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from Jinsu Han

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In our visit to Kyoto in summer of 2009, we went to this Temple that has two of the largest wooden temples in the world. One has a monumental canopy structure over it for restoration. It took a year just to build this "canopy" structure. --Gabe and AnneBelow is the main entry gate to the temples with Anne for scale.

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I visited Boulder, CO and saw this poster somewhere and thought of you so shot the photo; the text reads Today I grew taller from walking through the treesDavid

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I recently visited Venice ,Italy for the first time. After about 2 days, it began to get under my skin. Then I realized what it was. There are very few trees! You have to trek to gardens to find them. It just seemed odd, and kind of sad.

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sculpture by Gabriel Akagawa

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I derive strength, energy, and peace from trees; I believe they are healing creatures with souls. In the south, where I grew up, a beautiful species grows, known locally as the "tulip poplar," and boasting the grand Latin name of liriodendron tulipifera. These magnificent trees grow very, very tall and strong, and their grey, ridged bark proudly covers them in long vertical lines like the wales

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heres a tree story...in my hometown, Mesa Arizona there was an orchard oforange trees in a lot close to a friends house. the orchard used to bestuffed with mexican immigrants - picking away and loading up a big truckwith oranges... at the time, we were mischeivious little bastards - we wouldsneak through the dense orchards and throw oranges at the unsuspectingworkers.....anyway, at the corner of

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Click on picture for larger image.Image from the Peace Musem, Chicago, IL.

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Click on picture for larger image.Image from the Peace Musem, Chicago, IL.

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 I was listening to NPR this morning and they had a strange tribute to Dogwood trees. The woman telling the story decided to determine what kind of song Dogwoods sing. Anyway, it quickly turned into comparing the trees to woman and the simple arraignment of the Dogwood making other trees, like a cherry, look like a "tart". As I pondered the ridiculousness of calling trees whores I thought about

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These pictures are from St. Francisville LA of a big cedar grown completely around a small live-oak, so only a few of the lesser's branches poke out.  The tortoise is catching up to the hare though. The cedar wood is cracking and splitting quite a lot- with patches of oak bark showing through.  It makes for a very strange tree. Chris and Marine.

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Minneapolis has hundreds, perhaps thousands of trees. Beside Lake Harriet,though, there is a very special tree, a tree where three special creatures live...three ELVES. This tree has a beautiful, small door, like the door of an old castle, where children and adults of all ages, after opening the door, leave their letters to the elves inside, hoping for a reply.Believe it or not, each letter gets

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just happened to look out the window as i walked to the front desk and sawa car hauling a metal row boat filled over the top with tree branches..verycreative...using a boat as a trailer...like a giant bucket! was heading tothe compost site!

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Here are some trees for you from my trip out East.  The big fat ones are in Green-Wood Cemetery, in Brooklyn - I liked their fleshy quality.[Beech?  Burl elm?]  The other one with me in it is in Soho, NYC.Yuichiro claims that it was planted in the 60s or 70s by Fluxus headmanGeorge Machiunas.  Cannot confirm that.-David-

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As a young child I had visited this place called the Great Banyan Tree. We would make field trips from my school to this site where there was a huge banyan tree. The prop roots from this tree would hang almost to the ground. Myself and with other kids would hang on to the young prop roots and swing. We would climb on some branches and sit chatting, making jokes, and having fun. This tree provided

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Subject: Lynching in 2004 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 200408:23:14 -0700 (PDT) Fri, Apr. 23, 2004 Man found hanging in tree in Wilkinson County Associated Press http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/8502677.htmWOODVILLE, Miss. - Family members say a man found Friday hanging from a tree in rural Mississippi had returned home to fight for his family's land. The body of 52-year-old Roy Veal was discovered in

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In October 2003 I went to a friend's wedding in Hawaii. He and other friends very generously sponsored some of us poorer folk who otherwise couldn't have afforded to go. Perhaps that made me feel more generous of spirit myself.Anyway, the house where we stayed had a lot of coconut palm trees on the property. One good friend (and one of my sponsors) pulled me aside and asked me to take some

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WebBible Encyclopedia Absalom oh Absalom Meaning: father of peace; i.e., "peaceful." David's son by Maacah He was noted for his personal beauty and for the extra-ordinary profusion of the hair of his head The first public act of his life was the blood-revenge he executed against Amnon, David's eldest son, who had basely wronged Absalom's sister Tamar. This revenge was executed at the time of

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Those Brilliant Fall Outfits May Be Saving Trees October 19, 2004 By CARL ZIMMER. As trees across the northern United States turn gold and crimson, scientists are debating exactly what those colors are for. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/19/science/19leaf.html?ex=1099192170&ei=1&en=082e779da67c279e

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From October 15th through the 17th at Wood Street Gallery in Chicago the TREE-OSK will be exibited. As a part in the Connecting the Ages group show, the TREE-OSK sets up an exchange: take a wedge, leave your name and/or e-mail adress. Each wedge has http://treestories.blogspot.com stamped on it. This project further explores modes of connectedness between people, nature, objects and ideas.For

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I had just moved into this house. At 5.30 am I could see police lights swirling around through my windows. I wondered what sort of neighbourhood I had moved into. There was a knock. My neighbour. Two young lads about 16 had swerved off the road and into the tree at the top of my garden. One was sitting next to the rear wheel. The other was talking to 3 policemen. They were soooooo drunk. The guy

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Join the March!This effort cannot succeed without your important help. It will onlytake a few minutes of your time. Your participation in the Earth DayVirtual March will demonstrate to your elected representatives that theyshould be working to protect wildlife, its habitat and the environmentwe share, not casting votes to help special interests.You won't have to come to Washington. Or stand in

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you might find this article interesting.....bronze tree rootshttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/arts/design/06chur.html?th&emc=th

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