Pathways through the Particular

The Tree Path

From the Common Ground Manifesto for Trees :

Trees are key to our survival. They came before us and we have used, abused and loved them for thousands of years. They have provided our sustenance, food, shelter, medicine and the air we breathe. They are our history and our future. 

Yet we take them for granted. We cut them down without thinking and we are obsessed with planting, but we forget to care for the tree. Our culture is rich with trees, woods and green men, from pollards and timber barns to paintings and poetry, from the Green Knight and Robin Hood to Constable and Elgar. We urgently need to find new ways of living happily with trees as cultural, spiritual and emotional companions, as well as for ecological reasons ...

Read the full MANIFESTO FOR TREES
STAYING PUT FOR CENTURIES : What do ancient trees mean to people and their places?
TREES - ALL THE YEAR ROUND : Our cultural connection with trees.
Download a copy of the lecture "TREES, WOODS, CULTURE AND IMAGINATION " (33 KB), lecture to Forestry Authority Conference "A Seed in Time", 1993
Celebrate TREE DRESSING DAY
Trees and the 'Great Storm' of 1987