More on Trees — In My Books!

Last Sunday was Arbor Day and I shared some of my thoughts on the importance of trees.

Mostly I focused on the big picture and the (major) environmental benefits and landscape contribution of trees, but trees — as the various tree poems I’ve featured recently bear out — also influence human creativity in terms of art and literature.

In my own writing, trees often play an important part in defining landscape and over the next few weekends, I’m going to feature some excerpts that illustrate thi...