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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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With giggles to our kind moderators! Now, to the point? It has come to my attention that there are a few poets here at Passions who, um, well...TALK TO TREES!!!! Myself, being one  I am looking for others who also commune with nature  So if you are a tree talker...tree hugger...or even just a trunk stroker? Oh...heh heh YOU KNOW what I meant! Please tell me about it here. And please, I have my reasons for asking, so just trust me!!!! sigh...now everybody knows I'm loony...SURPISE, huh? |
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Irie Senior Member
since 1999-12-01
Posts 1493Washington State |
Hey Serenity.... My son is what my Mom calls a tree hugger! He hasn't spoken to one yet, at least that I know of! ~Sheri "The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those who got there first" [This message has been edited by Irie (edited 02-20-2001).] |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
yep. . . I talk to the trees. . . I listen to the wind. . . I talk to the birds, the squirrels. . . you name it. . . and. . . I let them talk to me too. . .  ---------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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Elizabeth
Moderator
Member Ascendant
since 1999-06-07
Posts 6871Minnesota |
I'm just plain crazy.  |
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kcsgrandma Senior Member
since 2000-09-24
Posts 1522Presque Isle, ME |
Well, I don't talk to the trees, but I do whisper to the breeze. To love another person is to see the face of God. - Les Miserables Marilyn |
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Dopey Dope
Moderator
Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132San Juan, Puerto Rico |
I love trees!! and they love me!  I was born myself, raised myself, and will continue to be myself. The world will just have to adjust. I'm in love with my shadow I admire it daily |
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X Angel Senior Member
since 1999-11-07
Posts 1521Oregon |
OMG..I know someone first hand who's bookshelf is full of "Tree-related" books and who himself absolutely adores trees. So much so that he makes his living taking care of them, he's a Tree Surgeon. He is also my sweetheart and the other moderator of this awesome forum...ta da!!! COLIN!!!!! And I wrote a lil poem for him after I got back from visiting him this January, and I'm posting it here in case ya missed it in the Open Forum... (PS I love trees too..lots and lots...we have some 125 yr old Cedars that my ancestors planted here on our farm...they're dying...and my WHOLE family is mourning them!  )ok nuff yabbering....here's da poem for my sweetie The Man Who Talks to Trees (for Colin) breathing hard leaving puffs of vapour in the frosty morning air the tree climber heaves himself up to surmount the tree finally. branches groaning under his weight he stills himself to quiet it's sway looking downward he checks the tree for warps and rot "looks good" he mumbles to himself off to his left a bird nest, abandoned for the season are all that is left of a family of Robins hands busy now, he hauls the saw to his side hand over hand over hand over hand steady and slow, the rhythm almost sleep inducing there, now he's ready to start his day's work work if you could call it that god he thrived on thin air and pitch it seems the cold never even touches him work if you could call shaping a monstrous tree into a piece of art work work if you could call saving a tree from itself and mother nature work funny how early this morning when he first touched this behemoth he felt the sickness these branches hid funny how each day as he touches a new tree the feelings grow sharper, more palpable funny how people looked at him strangely at times and called him "the man who talks to trees" but it was as if he had learned the secret language of the trees for he knew their need before he ever climbed a branch and he cherished that gift like a priceless treasure day's end now weary, he descends from the heights to go gratefully home to his waiting family but first he places his hands on the ancient bark once more and he finds, as he suspected, only health there now satisfied he smiles and calls it a day A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. Mae West (1892-1980) |
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Elizabeth Cor Senior Member
since 2000-10-13
Posts 879Over the river and through the woods |
*raises hand* *stands up proud, chest out* Verified tree talker, trunk stroker, and Kielbasa swallower…er uh, sorry wrong thread |
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Colin Senior Member
since 1999-06-05
Posts 596Callington, Cornwall, England |
Thankyou very much for choosing our humble lounge to have your discussion in Yes it's true. I guess I'm what you would call a tree hugger. I've never hugged a tree apart from as a joke but I do feel an extremely strong affinity with a lot of trees. I think it's a mixture of my knowledge of trees and my love of them that helps me communicate with them. I know it sounds weird so that's ok if you want a lil giggle  I talk to trees and can sense in some intangible way what they are feeling. and HAH... the feeling thing isn't imagination either. There's been research on many occasions that show plants can react to external stimuli.One piece of research showed that if one tree of a certain species (can't remember which right now) is attacked by a pathogenic beetle, it will produce a chemical defense agent in its sap. it might be too late for that tree, but within a few minutes, all the trees of that species nearby also start producing the same chemical. Clever eh? Anyway, that's enough for now I think. Trees can feel and we can feel trees. More later, Colin. Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill Vaughan |
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Colin Senior Member
since 1999-06-05
Posts 596Callington, Cornwall, England |
and yep, Heather's lovely poem is very appropriate  *hugs to my sweety* Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill Vaughan |
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Michael
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
Well, I'm not really in the habit of talking to trees, (so much as animals anyway), but I do remember one time when I was younger - riding my ATC and running head on into a tree. I think I had a few choice words to share with that one. Actually, it was almost an intimate experience, but we won't go there...LOL Anyway - does that count? Michael |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Michael...that's, um, interesting, but I wasn't exactly looking for stories of INTIMACY with our leafy friends...  (Linda? What's up with that?) I would like to thank everyone for replying, and would also like to ask Heather and Colin's permission to use their replies in a little article I'm doing for the spring newsletter. Please say yes! I officially promise to throw away my hacksaw, and be very very polite (at least in this forum) and also offer my sincere apologies for my impromptu effort at brain surgery on Colin regarding the Maple tree incident in the sanctuary. (I misunderstood your intent, Colin. My humble apologies.) Now all of that said and done? EVERYBODY GO PLANT SOMETHING...(Michael? YOU, however may be excused! ) " Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." T.S. Eliot |
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X Angel Senior Member
since 1999-11-07
Posts 1521Oregon |
permission granted!  A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. Mae West (1892-1980) |
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Skyfyre Senior Member
since 1999-08-15
Posts 1906Sitting in Michael's Lap |
Tree whisperer here ... *g* There is nothing so captivating as a bit of unspoiled Nature ... 'tis why I moved to Tehachapi, where I can see the mountains on all four sides of me.... Can't wait to head up north toward Oregon to see more of the old-growth forests (swoon) Give me a tent and a mess kit and I am SO there ... hehe Linda |
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Christopher
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
I hug a tree-hugger. Does that count? |
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JLR Senior Member
since 2001-02-04
Posts 1785 |
The longer I stay the scarder I get!! Just kidding. I had a whole conversation with a piece of chewing gum once. Guess that doesn't count though. Ha! |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Tree hugger is K. Very much so - very relaxing.  K...and I have found a lifetime can be lived in one moment... |
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X Angel Senior Member
since 1999-11-07
Posts 1521Oregon |
LOL I do have to say this...at my old place in Washington State we had this giant Douglas Fir Tree in our yard and it took me, and my 2 sons, who were 7 & 9 at the time, with our arms stretched as wide as we could reach to hug that tree!!!! It was an awesome tree. Made ya dizzy looking up to the top of it. A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. Mae West (1892-1980) [This message has been edited by X Angel (edited 02-21-2001).] |
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