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Even if…

Posted in Art, Stories, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Contributed by Marlene Pomeroy, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

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Posted in Art, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »

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A hurricane

Posted in Stories, Trees, tagged , , , , , on August 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Several years ago a hurricane came very far inland in North Carolina and my parents lost many trees they loved very much, including a large black walnut. I made a table top out of one large slab and paper out of some of the bark, curtains for my house and a book for my father. [...]

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Heartbeat

Posted in Stories, Trees, tagged , , , , on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

With my involvement in Treewhispers over the last eleven years I’ve heard thousands of tree stories — only a small fraction of them recorded here. When someone hears of the project I often inquire if they might have a tree story. Most don’t — or at least they don’t think they do — until I [...]

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Posted in Art, Stories, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

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Posted in Art, Stories, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

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Have you ever climbed a tree?

Posted in Art, Installations, Stories, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Have you ever climbed a tree? Do you have a favorite tree or a magical path through the woods? Join the Treewhispers forest of stories by sending your handmade paper rounds with your tree story/art/poetry. Your submission will be included in the upcoming exhibition Bridge and Joutras Galleries in the Regenstein Center at the Chicago [...]

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Primordial Forest

Posted in Stories, Trees, tagged , , , , , on August 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I have visited the Primordial Forest near the coast of Oregon. The Hidden Creek Wilderness has a stand of giant Redwoods going back two thousand years. It seems that few humans wander off the path into this overgrown untouched wilderness with Hidden Creek running through it. Even the Indians that lived along the coast and [...]

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To A Fallen Tree

Posted in Stories, Trees, tagged , , , , on April 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I had seen it knew it was there huge and towering over our insignificant lives Living for centuries as the landscape changed. Then one day I drove past. They were cutting it down to make room for a turn lane. This ancient tree, four humans could join hands round it, alive yesterday today lay bleeding, [...]

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The tallest living thing on Earth…

Posted in Stories, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Richard Preston is one of the only humans to have climbed Hyperion, a nearly 380-foot redwood tree that is the tallest living thing on Earth. Hyperion was discovered by explorer Michael Taylor while Preston was writing his latest full-length book, The Wild Trees.

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THE GIVING PLANT

Posted in Art, Stories, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

MY FATHER AND MOTHER HAVE INSTILLED A LOVE OF PLANTING IN OUR FAMILY. The planting inheritance, a flourishing of the verdurous instinct… But it’s more to the relishing of seeing things grow. And sharing in that growth. My father comes from a planting background, as a farmer. Early on, our family bought a farm, some [...]

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I am the tree!

Posted in Stories, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , on March 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I am the tree… there is no name for me … I am just the tree! My ways are ancient … symbolic of the connections between earth and sky. My roots grow deep into the soil; soil that is all that remains of my ancestors. It is all that remains … of anyone’s ancestors … [...]

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Happy 2011!!!

Posted in Stories, Trees, tagged , , , on January 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful.Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are [...]

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TEN YEARS!

Posted in Art, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »

It has been ten years—TEN YEARS! — since the inception of Treewhispers. To have witnessed the many connections and reconnections that have been made though art and storytelling — and trees— has been such an amazing gift. If anyone wonders why my passion for this project runs so high, I would have to say it’s [...]

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