(all pics enlarge if you click on 'em...)
Spring is here, along with its wacky weather patterns...and while walking Mercy late yesterday morning, I toted my little Canon S2 and decided to shoot plinks of youthful leaves. There is something metaphorical about looking at the young growth, ravenously soaking up what sun it can and quickly spreading its wings to spur on the new year's production of sugar molecules through photosynthesis...
And in this age of internet this and that, I thought it would be interesting to find quotes applicable to trees coming to life to go along with the pictures...and as expected I was NOT disappointed...
"Life without love is like a tree
without blossom and fruit."
Khalil Gibran
(neat wallpaper background shot - right click)
"Remember that the greatest of oak trees began as a nut."
Anonymous
I have to admit that in my schooling days I was never high on poetry...admittedly, a lot of it even today I just don't "get". And yet....and yet I'm drawn to look for poems that are classic monuments by monolithic authors, and find myself willing to indulge to attempt to see the inner beauty and mastery of their literary craft...
And what more appropriate poem is there for trees than Joyce Kilmer's well-known poem:
"Trees"
A poem lovely as a tree.
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A nest of robins in her hair;
Who intimately lives with rain.
But only God can make a tree."
Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
I chose a tulip poplar leaf above for a reason; in western NC near Lake Santeetlah and Robbinsville is the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest...a virgin poplar cove that is well worth the visit and hike...therein you will find gigantic trees untouched by human saws...
...and as a cute follow-up, I found this Ogden Nash poem...
"I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree;
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all."
Ogden Open Road
"Keep a green tree in your heart
and perhaps a singing bird will come."
Chinese proverb
"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
"The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider,
every green tree is far more glorious
than if it were made of gold and silver."
Martin Luther
"I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."
Dr. Suess
"Suburbia is where the developer
bulldozes out the trees,
then names the streets after them."
Bill Vaughan
"Do not be afraid to go out on a limb...
That's where the fruit is."
Anonymous
Spring is here, along with its wacky weather patterns...and while walking Mercy late yesterday morning, I toted my little Canon S2 and decided to shoot plinks of youthful leaves. There is something metaphorical about looking at the young growth, ravenously soaking up what sun it can and quickly spreading its wings to spur on the new year's production of sugar molecules through photosynthesis...
And in this age of internet this and that, I thought it would be interesting to find quotes applicable to trees coming to life to go along with the pictures...and as expected I was NOT disappointed...
"Life without love is like a tree
without blossom and fruit."
Khalil Gibran
(neat wallpaper background shot - right click)"Remember that the greatest of oak trees began as a nut."
Anonymous
I have to admit that in my schooling days I was never high on poetry...admittedly, a lot of it even today I just don't "get". And yet....and yet I'm drawn to look for poems that are classic monuments by monolithic authors, and find myself willing to indulge to attempt to see the inner beauty and mastery of their literary craft...And what more appropriate poem is there for trees than Joyce Kilmer's well-known poem:
"Trees"
A poem lovely as a tree.
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A nest of robins in her hair;
Who intimately lives with rain.
But only God can make a tree."
Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
I chose a tulip poplar leaf above for a reason; in western NC near Lake Santeetlah and Robbinsville is the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest...a virgin poplar cove that is well worth the visit and hike...therein you will find gigantic trees untouched by human saws...
"I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree;
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all."
"Keep a green tree in your heartand perhaps a singing bird will come."
Chinese proverb
"Character is like a tree andreputation like a shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it;
the tree is the real thing."
Abraham Lincoln
"The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider,every green tree is far more glorious
than if it were made of gold and silver."
Martin Luther
"I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."Dr. Suess
"Suburbia is where the developerbulldozes out the trees,
then names the streets after them."
Bill Vaughan
"Do not be afraid to go out on a limb... That's where the fruit is."
Anonymous
