The Druids were right. Trees are a life form worthy of our adoration and protection. Many feel they are wonderful. They make clean air, take co2 out of the atmosphere. They provide shade and homes for other creatures like, birds and squirrels. They make the landscape bearable, unlike our ugly urban sprawl.
Who dislikes trees? I cannot think of anyone. Even loggers, the people that cut trees down, do not dislike them. They see dollar signs, or paper, or plywood. Maybe even they see homes for people. I once saw a bumper sticker that said, "Save a Tree - now try and wipe your behind with a spotted owl". Even there, was a reverence for the tree. Perhaps no reverence for the owl. I wouldn't suggest anyone try to handle an owl, they are more pointy than any parrot.
Did you see the man on the news stuck 75 ft. up a tree with his cockatoo? Even he did not dislike the tree. His bird really liked the tree.
According to sympathic vibrational physics, trees have been recorded speaking to each other in the electromagnetic range. They warn of bug infestations. One can only wonder what else they talk about.
Before all this global warming, we had loads of trees, continents of trees. Perhaps we should think about re-forestation, on a global scale. It would make sense, (no trees =global warming).. (Lot of trees hmmm, no global warming).
Just something to think about.
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I have also heard that before the white man arrived on Turtle Island (native name for North America) a squirrel could travel from the Atlantic Ocean to to the Mississippi River without ever touching the ground.
There's a difference, though, in how different people "value" trees. Some value them as a living being in their own right. Others value them in terms of their own need. The first is a higher value, though both are indeed values. It's when you get into valuing trees (or anything/anyone else) exclusively in terms of your own need - that's when you get into trouble. That's where we are today.
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"Russelian science"
Walter Russell (1871–1963), is a controversial figure in physics and cosmogony. He posited that the universe was founded on the unifying principle of rhythmic balanced interchange. Although a number of his books have been published, few of his claims have been verified by mainstream academics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Russell.
I wouldn't go so far as saying the Druids were right. Regardless of centurys of feeble attempts, that culture hasn't been reborn. Don't get me wrong. I love trees, just not to many to make our lives uncomfortable.
I moved to the "country" 5 years ago partly to get away from Houston urban congestion, now the bedroom communities are encroaching. And, it's all money greed that driving it. With construction crews throwing up zero sidelot houses in less than a week, fancy interiors, cable, dsl, all the amenities furnished by forced labor from our neighboring illegals.
My stance, though, is that CO2 isn't a problem. Man on average doesn't have as much common sense as a dog which, naturally, won't soil his living space.
It's an individual world and we should learn to first take care of ourselves and not be concerned about how our neighbors live. Except when they need our help.
Do you obey federal laws that don't make sense? Do you thrive in mob mentality?
You must answer both questions the same or you'll begin to drool soon.
I have several hundred trees on my property, maybe even a thousand. Many are a nuisance. One put a gash in my arm this afternoon while I was trying to mow around low hanging branches. That one's going to loose a limb soon.
I have a big brush pile of offending tree limbs. Soon the evening sky will be ablaze as it incenerates itself. If I'd do it during the day, the smoke would be visable for miles, but it's more fun at night. (maybe dance around it naked like the druids).
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[26] And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
[28] And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
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There are a lot of living things that we want to eradicate. Locusts?
Is a 100yr old tree's life to be more protected than a 6 month old fish?
What about rocks? They move and grow, inhale biomass and exhale hydrocarbons.
Beware of un-intended consequences.
That grass roof thing is a great idea. It's actually part of old Norwegian culture to have grass roofs. If everybody has=d a grass roof the earths surface temperature, at least in America would be lowered because black roads and roof tops absorb heat.
For humanity to access its true potential, it needs to be able to shapeshift into all forms of consciousness - because THAT is what being "made in the likeness of God" means. God - Creator - is a shape-shifter. All shapes at once. For a human to begin to shapeshift consciousness, merging with one being, or species, or landscape, at a time, means that human is entering the global HeartMind creative consciousness, and has the potential, at last, for Good Planetary Stewardship.
the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined
branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of
the place then strike you with the presence of a deity?" - Seneca
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness."- Kahlil Gibran
absence it is visited again, the meeting place is approached with feelings of
pleasure and curiosity as to how one's friend had fared, even with thoughts
as to what changes may come to tree or visitor since first they met; this
may seem like a foolish sentiment - perhaps it is. But, after all,
sentiment is mingled with most that's best in life."
- Charles Eley, Gardening for the Twentieth Century, 1923
However, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection calculates that a single
tree that lives for fifty years will contribute service worth nearly $200,000 (in 1994 dollars)
to the community during its lifetime. This includes providing oxygen ($31,250), recycling
water and regulating humidity ($37,000), controlling air pollution ($62,500), producing
protein ($2,500), providing shelter for wildlife ($31,250), and controlling land
erosion and fertilizing the soil ($31,250)."
- Sacred Trees
And put them in a tree museum
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half just to see'em.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone.
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot."
- Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
-Nelson Henderson
cut it down and had sacred groves and woods he left standing—
homes of the gods or of his fellow creatures—whereas his successor,
who ungodded nature, ravages the heights and brings floods,
dustbowls and salt pans into the once fertile lowlands. Or worse,
defoliates to facilitate hunting down his brother man."
- Jacob Trapp, The Light of a Thousand Suns, 1973
for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down
(for the tree of the field is man's life)..."
- Deuteronomy 20:19
Druid forebears that this Grove might become a truly holy and sanctified place.
We respect and honour and admire you, O trees, for you represent both
Peace and Power - though you are mighty you hurt no creature. Though
you sustain us with your breath, you will give up your life to house and
warm and teach us. We give thanks for your blessing upon our lives
and upon our lands. May you fare well in this chosen place. Awen.
- Druid Ceremony for Planting a Grove
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976969600&nav=Namespace
http://discovermagazine.com/2002/apr/featplants
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/01/990105075808.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/7809506.stm
Just because we do not understand something, does not mean it does not exist or is impossible.