"Crocuses have come; wind flowers
Tremble against quick April. Violets put on the night's blue, Primroses wear the pale dawn, The gold daffodils have stolen From the sun." "This Fevers Me" Richard Eberhart "Beneath the light, against your white door, The smallest moths, like Chinese fans, Flatten themselves, silver and silver-gilt Over pale yellow, orange, or gray." "A Cold Spring" Elizabeth Bishop "Always it happens when we are not there-- The tree leaps up alive into the air, Small open parasols of Chinese green Wave on each twig." "Metamorphosis" May Sarton The Language of Spring: Poems for the Season of Renewal with poems selected by Robert Atwan was published by Beacon Press in 2003.
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Trees are an integral part of the biodiversity that sustains life on Earth. Trees provide oxygen, food, wood, cooling, medicinal remedies, solace and inspiration. They are incredibly efficient carbon sinks, sequestering millions of tons of carbon dioxide yearly. Trees define our lives.
There are approximately three trillion trees made up of seventy-five thousand species, but that is only half as many as there were when humans turned to agriculture twelve thousand years ago. In the Amazon, forests are burning at the rate of twenty-two square feet a minute while central Africa loses ten million acres a year. Human-caused climate change has brought more insect and fungal infections, increasing numbers of fires and drought, and rising tides as freshwater tables drop. Forests are being poisoned through mining practices as well. Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future was written by Daniel Lewis and published by Avid Reader Press in 2024. |
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