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"Mother Nature has
provided free devices that remove carbon dioxide from our air using natural
solar power:
trees and
forests
One fast-growing tree can sequester many tons of
carbon.
How about planting trees?" - Elan Glasser
etymology:In Old
English, words looked and sounded much more alike than they do now: "tree" was trow and "true" was
trowe.
The first of these comes from the Germanic noun *trewam; the
second, from the adjective *treuwaz.
Both these Germanic words
ultimately go back to an Indo-European root *deru- or *dreu-, appearing in
derivatives referring to wood and
firmness.
Truth may be
thought of as something firm; so as well can certain bonds between humans,
like trust, another derivative of the same root.
A slightly different
form of the root, *dru-, appears in the word druid, an ancient Celtic
priest; his name is etymologically
*dru-wid-, or "strong seer."
2005
Cherry trees are flowering on
average two weeks earlier than in 1995.
A thousand large
lakes in Siberia have dried up within the
last 25 years. Thawing of the perma frost layer allowed the water from these
lakes to seep into the ground. Migratory
birds depending upon the lakes of Siberia
are expected to be negatively impacted.
The Mexican government reported
a suprising reduction of 75% of the Monarch butterfly population due to adverse
weather conditions.
"I've been doing this I was big enough to carry a
bucket. Tapping in January? Never. Never. Never." - Rex Marsh, a 71 year old a
Vermont maple syrup producer, stated in the spring of 2006 that he had tapped
his 9000 sugar maple trees in January - two years in a row.
2006
July heat wave in America breaks more than 2,300
daily records and sets 50 all-time records for hottest temperature ever
recorded.
The slight moderation in temperature is being seen in pine
forests of 10 western American states including California, Utah, Colorado, New
Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and in British Columbia. Lodgepole pines in
Idaho and Colorado, ancient white-bark pines of Idaho and Montana, pinon pines
in Colorado, firs in Montana and aspen trees throughout the West are dying by
the millions. Beetles have ravaged the drought weakened trees. Temperatures
below zero for several days on end are required to kill the beetle which has
not happened since the 90's.
"Nothing like this has occurred in the last
350 years. Whole landscapes have been affected." - Wayne Shepperd, Forest
Service researcher
"The mountainsides are blanketed with dead trees as
far as the eye can see." - Erik Olsen 11/19/2008
2009
Over a fifth of the aspen trees in Colorado have
died due to global
warming.
I SAW IN LOUISIANA A LIVE OAK
GROWING
I saw in Louisiana a live oak growing,
All alone
stood it and the moss hung down from the branches,
Without any companion
it grew there uttering joyous of dark green,
And its look, rude,
unbending, lusty, made me think of myself,
how it could utter joyous
leaves standing alone there without its friend near,
for I knew I could
not.
I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it
and
I twined around it a little moss,
I brought it away, and I
have placed it in sight in my room,
It is not needed to remind me as of
my own dear friends,
It remains to me a curious token.
It makes
me think of manly compassion.
The live oak glistens there in Louisiana
solitary in a wide flat space,
uttering joyous leaves
all its life without a friend or lover near,
I know very well I could
not.
Walt
Whitman
legend of the cedar
tree
A long time ago when the Cherokee people were new upon the Earth,
they thought that life would be much better if there was never any
night.
They beseeched the
Ouga (the Creator) that it might be day all
the time and that there would be no darkness.
The
Creator heard their voices and made the
night cease and it was day all the
time. Soon, the forest was thick with heavy growth. It became difficult to walk
and to find the path. The people toiled in the gardens many long hours trying to keep the
weeds pulled from among the corn
and other food plants. It got hot, very hot, and continued that way day
after long day. The people began to find it difficult to sleep and became short tempered
and argued among themselves.
Not many days had passed before the people
realized they had made a mistake
and, once again, they beseeched the Creator.
"Please," they prayed, "we
have made a mistake in asking that
it be day all the time. Now we think that it should be
night all the time."
The
Creator paused at this new request and
thought that perhaps the people may be right even though all things were
created in twos... representing to
us day and night, life and death,
good and evil, times of plenty and times of famine.
The
Creator loved the people and decided to
make it night all the time as they
had asked.
The day ceased and night fell upon the Earth. Soon, the
crops stopped growing and it became very cold. The people spent much of their
time gathering wood for the fires. They
could not see to hunt meat and with no crops growing it was not long before
the people were cold, weak, and very hungry. Many of the people
died.
Those that remained still living gathered once again to beseech
the Creator. "Help us
Creator," they cried!
"We have made
a terrible mistake. You had made
the day and the night
perfect, and as it should be, from the
beginning. We ask that you forgive us and make the day and
night as it was before."
Once again the Creator listened to
the request of the people. The day and the
night became, as the people had
asked, as it had been in the beginning. Each day was divided between light and
darkness. The weather became more
pleasant, and the crops began to grow again. Game was plentiful and the hunting
was good. The people had plenty to
eat and there was not much
sickness. The people treated each other with
compassion and
respect.
It was good to
be alive.
The people were grateful and thanked the
Creator for their life and for the food
they had to eat. The
Creator accepted the
gratitude of the people and was
glad to see them smiling again. However, during the time of the long days of
night, many of the people had died,
and the Creator was sorry that they had
perished because of the night. The
Creator placed their
spirits in a newly created
tree.
This tree was named a-tsi-na tlu-gv {ah-see-na loo-guh} cedar
tree. When you smell the aroma of the cedar tree or gaze upon it standing in
the forest, remember that if you are
Tsalagi, you are looking
upon your ancestor.
Tradition holds that the wood of the cedar tree
holds powerful protective spirits for the
Cherokee.
Many
Cherokee carry a small
piece of cedar wood in their medicine bag.
It is also placed above the
entrances to the dwelling to protect against the entry of
evil
spirits.
Traditional
drums are made from cedar wood.
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