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November

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Woodland Ways mission:

 

Education for sustainable development through local action and global awareness.

 

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This month's Tree Quotation

 

“Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.”

 

 

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926),
shortened to Rainer Maria Rilke (German: [ˈʁaɪnɐ maˈʁiːa ˈʁɪlkə]), was an Austrian poet and novelist

 

 

Discover more  here

 

 

 

 

 

Trees

Part of the planetary mosaic of life...

Useful web links

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So many trees!

A whole page of tree related web links...

A new, beautiful short time-lapse film, shot in the French

countryside by Tanguy Louvigny.

Using three cameras, with three layered images

for every second of the sequence.

Tree page from UK Safari

- includes a good tree

identification bit

 

 

The identity of trees and shrubs

in the UK

Does what it says on the tin

Amazing tree facts from the website of the The Weekend Gardener...

Featured link:

Quotations about trees

 

Definition?

 

The definition of a tree

from the pages

of Wikipedia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crowded House: how we came to be 7 billlion people?

 

This short film, on the Open Culture web pages explains in the form of a full glass, as a simple metaphor, how our population has grown in the last 1,000 years.

 

It stresses the continual importance of environmental management.

 

Read more here...

Find out about trees

 

The Tree Council
How to do it - community action, tree wardens

and grants

 

What tree is it?
 Identify your tree by leaf, by fruit and by name.

 

BBC Gardening page
Plant finder, disease indentifier and gardening blog

 

Worldland Trust page
A page on practical support from a group dedicated to saving rainforest trees. Section on planting too.

 

TreeHelp.com
A US site, but one that offers advice about planting a variety of tree and shrub sizes.  Informative about burlap!