The Gift of Trees at Sustainable Tucson meeting
March 10 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm MST
by Carolyn Classen, blogger
| The Gifts of Trees |
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| Tuesday, March 10 6:00-7:15 pm Via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81445716182?pwd=4aMyqKer6cY7dcEJrSWYA9TaGXUYDK.1 I am the bread of kindness and the flower of beauty. Ye who pass by, listen to my prayer: Harm me not. – Ancient prayer, in Portuguese forest preservations “On a hot summer’s day, trees can cool the air, and the ground beneath them, as much as 9-13 degrees. Trees give many more such gifts to us every day. Join us for a conversation with Adam Farrell-Wortman, Horticultural Director at the Tucson Botanical Gardens, and arborist Nazareth Taraz, who will paint a picture of the amazing gifts of trees to humans and to habitat, and describe how we can best serve the trees in our desert community.” Carolyn’s note: This talk reminds me of a poem from high school: Trees By Joyce Kilmer “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.” |