Friday thoughts: Quotations about trees

[OWC Jamie]

mikebw wrote:
Shade trees can help reduce the cost air conditioning in the summer months.

I know a guy who just paid to have all the trees on his lot cut down and wants his neighbor to trim the trees that hang over the property line.

I have one of those neighbors.
Idiot doesn't want to rake leaves.
Just cut everything back to the property line. Must have devalued his property ( looks like 'ell) by several thousand.
Why move out to the treed country if you don't like leaves ?

[MacArtist]

btfc wrote:
TREES
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree

A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray,

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair

Upon whose blossom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems were made by fools like me
But only God can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

I had to memorize this poem in 5 grade.

We lost so many elm trees in my hometown in South Dakota to Dutch Elm Disease back in the 70's. Very sad.

[OWC Jamie]

Had to learn that poem in grammar school, too. Same time as planting a tree for Arbor Day in the school yard.
Went back years later figuring there must be a forest there by now. Seems they removed that arbor day tree every Summer during vacation so the next year's class could do the same. What a rip. :-)

I used to have some linen thingy with this stitched on it:

[voodoopenguin]

billb wrote:

I used to have some linen thingy with this stitched on it:

We have a copy of that poem and use it as a reference every winter. However, although elm is not as good as some it's not quite as bad as the poem says in fact I burned some tonight.

Paul

[Black]

Jeez, what a nihilistic turn this thread has taken, from the glory of trees to burning them. I think you guys are depressed.

[OWC Jamie]

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Started out glorious ?
Firewood for warmth is a nihilistic turn from bulldozers and suburban infrastructure ?