Art is a process requiring skills to produce a product or performance considered attractive or pleasing. Art is doing. Art is muscle. Arboriculture is the cultivation of trees. To cultivate healthy, attractive and safe trees both mind and muscle must be used.
Arboriculture is an art and a science.
Arboriculture emerged as an art Arboriculture emerged primarily as a skill, or art form, done by strong, working class people who were not afraid of hard work. It is time now to add science to the cultivation of trees. The cell theory started biology as a science The basic science behind all tree treatments is biology. Biology as a science started after the acceptance of the cell theory , then next came the germ theory and later the theory of evolution. The theory of genetics and the clarification of DNA have advanced biology to one of the leading disciplines of science today.