I talk to the trees (pic heavy)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

Do you?

[SPKrazy]

1. Yes, I Do...

and under the influence of some interesting substances I felt they could really understand me.

I still feel that, so maybe it wasn't just the substances, of course i could be permanently influenced and wouldn't know it..

I might have had some druidic influences, somewhere, or maybe my life energy has been there before.

:shrug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. I felt that from the time I was a kid.

I believe trees have souls...

[SPKrazy]

3. I believe it.

I can only say that they shimmer and seem to want to listen.

I know that sounds insane to some, but do you ever just want to hug a tree? I do.

:hug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. I felt very close to our apple tree when I was a kid...

I hugged it all the time...spent hours in its branches. I was really upset when my parents decided to cut it down, even though I was an adult.

I'm still a tree-hugger, too. And proud of it! :D

[SPKrazy]

7. Tree huggers unite!

:hug:

we lurves our trees!

:hi:

[amitten]

5. I think that trees have some kind of awareness. n/t

[gemdem]

6. You're in Paint Your Wagon kinda mood tonight...

Saw the "wand'rin' star" under another thread. :-)

Um, the banyan tree photo -- I'm guessing the pic was taken in Ft. Myers? Just guessing. Looks like the one at the Edison and Ford winter homes.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. That other post made me start thinking

about all the tunes in the show. The movie was terrible; but the musical play is really quite good...

[TK421]

8. Lovely pictures...I've always had a thing for pines. There were so many of them

around where I grew up :thumbsup:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. Where was that?

:-)

[TK421]

28. A suburb of Philly.....across the street there was a lot with tons of them

We used to play over there after school

[GoddessOfGuinness]

31. DC used to have a lot of trees, too...

We need another Lady Bird Johnson...

[Truthiness Inspector]

9. I talk to trees too

I had a fruit tree in my yard, from the previous owner, that produced NO fruit so it was almost chopped down. I talked to that tree, and next thing so many fruits it was unreal. My freinds know it actually happened but most people I tell probably think I'm nuts.

[TK421]

11. My grandmother had a tree just like that...everyone thought it was dead

but several years later it sprouted so many sickle pears it was unbelievable....granted, you can't do much with sickle pears, but the tree came to life like it knew it was about to be cut down

[Truthiness Inspector]

13. It bums me out when people give up on trees

I've seen it happen enough times in my life where you just give that tree a chance, and it produces...like you said with your grandmother's tree, it's like the tree knew it was do or die.

[TK421]

14. If it makes you feel any better, that tree still stands....as well as

a willow tree ( which the neighbors thought was unsightly, but fuck them assholes ) is still there. There is also a cherry tree in her backyard that still bears plenty of fruit after all these years.

I've driven down my old neighborhood in Philadelphia, and when I was growing up there were trees outside of EVERYONES house. Now, they are all cut down, and the street looks totally desolate. I understand the importance of trees, believe me...:thumbsup:

[Truthiness Inspector]

16. It does make me feel better

it takes people like you and me to keep these beautirful trees alive.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. I believe you...

Did you ever see this story about the effect of classical music on wine grapes?

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1165678

There's so much that we don't understand about plants...

[underseasurveyor]

10. I hug them

:hug: Well I do.
Spectacular beings trees are :-)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

21. Of all the characters in the Lord of the Rings

Ents are my favorites. :-)

[Zookeeper]

12. One of the things I really like about northern winters....

is seeing the beautiful and interesting forms of deciduous trees after they've dropped their leaves. Especially the old oaks.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

22. Yes!

It's always amazed me that trees are strongest when they appear the most vulnerable...

[ForrestGump]

15. Well, I was born under a wanderin' star, so sometimes

they're all there is to talk to.



But when you’re lost and all alone
There ain’t no word but lonely

And I’m a lost and lonely man
Without a star to guide me
Maria blow my love to me
I need my girl beside me

[GoddessOfGuinness]

23. That's a beautiful song...

[last_texas_dem]

17. Occasionally

(but they never listen to me...)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

24. I'll bet they do...

You just haven't heard an answer. :-)

[wildhorses]

25. ---

me too :blush:

i have a huge oak in my front yard. it is my best friend.

:hug:

[SPKrazy]

29. I Think It's Nothing To Be Embarrassed About

trees are people too

we're treehuggers wh!

:hug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

32. How lovely for you!

There's no shame in that, my friend! :hug:

[hippywife]

26. Beautiful!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

33. I love it!

:hug::beer::hug:

[InvisibleTouch]

27. Certainly, now and again.

I love palm trees, especially.

I read in a book recently about a bamboo researcher with a dyed-in-the-wool scientific mindset, who swore that his bamboo groves had an awareness of some kind, as though they recognized and greeted him when he approached.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

35. Very cool!

Palms are amazing, aren't they?

[Sanity Claws]

30. I'm learning to hear them

Yesterday a friend did an experiment with me. The idea was to see if I could feel the vibes or energy of a tree. I closed my eyes, she turned me around and told me to put my arms out and try to feel the energy of a tree and go to it. I took a few steps in one direction. Stopped and modified my direction. Walked a little more. Stopped again. About the third time I did this, I started feeling very very strong energy hitting my right palm but not my left. I figured that meant the tree was to my left and I turned and walked right into it.
It was the coolest experiment ever. When I took a walk this morning, I hugged a pine tree that I passed.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

37. That's interesting...

I wonder why you felt the energy in your right palm when the tree was on your left...

Makes me want to try it!

[lost-in-nj]

34. I used to

talk to a clutch of Birch trees we had planted. when they died and we had to cut them down people in the neighborhood
came by to say how sad they were.....
They were actually a landmark in giving directions!!!!



lost

[GoddessOfGuinness]

38. I love the birches in New England...

We have a few down here, but they never grow very big.

[otherlander]

36. Yes.

But they never answer.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

39. You have to be inwardly very quiet to hear them

:-)

[otherlander]

41. I hear them

But they only talk to themselves... about mud and sunlight. :)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

42. The only things that really matter in this world

Mud and sunlight...

[GenDem]

40. Big fan of trees here

:hi: I love them in all seasons, brands, shapes, and sizes. I recently received an email with some beautiful photos of incredible trees. Trees make me very happy.

Your trees are wonderful!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

43. Glad you like!

Can you post your pics here?

[GenDem]

44. I'll have to dig them up from my email

if I didn't delete them. I'll post if I still have them.

There was some trees that were the oldest living things on the planet. Can't remember where they were from. :shrug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

46. Maybe bristlecone pines?

[barb162]

45. yes, especially when I plant them

[GoddessOfGuinness]

47. We hade a friend who worked for the National Botanical Gardens...

Whenever he planted something, he'd finish the job by saying, "Now...Grow or die." :-)

[neweurope]

48. Yes, I do, and occasionally I hug one.

I love them all. Imagine a world without trees!

We have an oak tree (among others) that I often sit under in summer. I can't take heat well, and - ahem, no I'm NOT crazy - when I'm uncomfortable and sweating I ask the tree to make some wind and rustle his leaves. And I swear that he does, takes a minute, but he does every time I earnestly ask.


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[GoddessOfGuinness]

49. What kind of oak?

My next door neighbor has a wonderful old willow oak in his yard which I'm certain is at least 100 years old. We have a small blackjack oak in our backyard, and a scarlet oak in the treebox out front.

[neweurope]

50. Don't know what you would call it -

a German oak, Quercus robur.




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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!