God`s green alphabet
June 2011
A tree is God’s miracle manifested. Like a mother, it feeds many. It is a home as well as refuge for all who seek its shade. LP photographers Shreela Nair, Sanjoli Sharma and Arti Rao capture share some images of these trusted friends across the country
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All things share the same breath – the beast, the tree, the man… the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
-Chief Seattle, Native American leader
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The trees are God’s great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green Across the world His thoughts serene.
-Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist
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I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
-John Muir, American naturalist
Alone with myself The trees bend to caress me The shade hugs my heart.
-Candy Polgar, American Poet
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
-Abraham Lincoln, former US president
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
-Alice Walker, Black author poet in The Color Purple
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Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.
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-Kahlil Gibran, Arab poet, writer
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest 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 bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.
-Joyce Kilmer, American journalist and poet