Quote for Today: Mary Cassatt
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up. —Mary Cassatt
Quote for Today: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a …
Quote for Today: John Muir
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these …
Quote for Today: Tom Waits
My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. “Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?” they asked me the other day. …
Quote for Today: J.R.R. Tolkien
“My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the …
Listen to the Thirsty Trees
Did you know trees make noise when they get thirsty? Bioacoustician Bernie Krause has amplified and recorded these sounds, which are generally inaudible to human ears. You can read and …
Quote for Today: Jiddu Krishnamurti
Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree’, or `that is a banyan tree’, the naming of the tree, which …
Quote for Today: William Blake
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and …
Quote for Today: Karl Ove Knausgård
The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on the farm gave it a thought, …
Little Trees: Famous Bonsai from Bonsai Empire
Synkroniciti was intrigued by Diego Stocco’s Music from a Bonsai and thought we might bring you more miniature trees. This article from Bonsai Empire pictures ten of the most famous Bonsai from …