As we wander around the neighborhood/town/area/country/world, we encounter trees of all kinds, in all kinds of forms.  This page is a place where students of the "Tree and Forest in the Human Experience" course share some of their favorites.

Matt donated this image, which instantly became one of my favorites.  The original poster was selling for $675, I didn't bid on it.

Alex donated this one that she spotted in a magazine.  It's the bathroom sink, not the kitchen sink, but it still seems to have something to do with the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil...

New York is in its own way considered the Big Apple of course, so here are a couple images of trees in the city from my recent trip there.

OK, they've kind of got this one under wraps, but at least it's close to the ground, as compared to...

The forest of Broadway may be kind of parochial, but they have their own version of the Garden of Eden too, even if you have to find it on the side of a truck.

Pam is looking at things with an artistic eye, and captured various end-phases of the tree....
First, the fallen leaves

And then the snag...

In class we talk a lot about the interplay between religion and the environment.  Wendell Berry wraps them together in his poem A Timbered Choir from The Sabbeth Poems, 1979-1997

Slowly, slowly, they return
To the small woodland let alone:
Great trees, outspreading and upright,
Apostles of the living light.

Patient as stars, they build in air
Tier after tier a timbered choir,
Stout beams upholding weightless grace
Of song, a blessing on this place.

They stand in waiting all around,
Uprisings of their native ground,
Downcomings of the distant light;
They are the advent they await.

Receiving sun and giving shade,
Their life's a benefaction made,
And is a benediction said
Over the living and the dead.

In fall their brightened leaves, released,
Fly down the wind, and we are pleased
To walk on radiance, amazed.
0 light come down to earth, be praised!