Trees: Five Fabulous Facts You Need to Know

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The canopy of trees

Trees offer great beauty. For instance have you ever looked at a tree from this angle?

Five Fabulous Facts about Trees

Perhaps you remember the old poem about trees that I learned when I was in elementary school, written by Joyce Kilmer, an American writer and poet born in the 19th century and living through World War I. Critics generally did not think much of Kilmer’s work, calling it too simple, yet I and many others remember at least the first two lines of the poem:

“I think that I shall never see,

A poem as lovely as a tree…”

Even as I think about this poem, I am sitting in my swing, leaning back to look up into the canopy of the maple tree under which the swing sits. Bright green leaves contrast with a spring-blue sky. Black branches and twigs make an intricate pattern. The leaves sway in the wind. A couple of woodpeckers are visiting the two bird feeders that hang on the tree’s branches. All in all, it is a beautiful sight. ... Read More