Some remarkable writings and images describing intimate encounters with trees got us thinking about what really happens when we sit inside one, climb one, sit in its embrace…
Read MoreBeth Moon’s Photographs of Ancient Trees Under Night Skies are Magic
Inspired by studies that view trees as receivers of stellar energies, photographer Beth Moon traveled to the world’s “last dark places” to photograph ancient trees at night, in color.
Read MoreWe Go Inside a 1500 Year Old Tree (Judi Dench and Jo Shapcott)
We can think of no better way to start our day than to spend three minutes inside a 1500 year old tree (with a poem).
Read MoreA Portrait of One Tree with A Mighty View
It took National Geographic photographer Michael Nichols 32 days to photograph the President, a 3200-year-old, 247-foot-tall giant sequoia in California. (Click on the image twice to get a full measure of BIG.) One of the oldest trees in the world, the President has stood witness to millennia of history. We spent quite a bit of time trying to find out just what exactly those 3,000 years might have entailed. Here’s a bit of the story.
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