Something so large and still, and yet so alive, radiates immense peace. We recognize in large trees a taste of immortality that is beyond us. My house and office would be far less pleasant places to live and work, if it weren't for the shade of huge oaks, hickories, gums and maples.
Evergreens screen our property from our neighbors year round.
Bristlecone Pine Beyond the local scene, trees keep the planet livable. Turning carbon dioxide into oxygen, trees act as the vast lungs of earth. Huge rain forests affect the climate and are a rich source of food and medicines. Now there is delicious irony as the pixel-based World Wide Web, a system of communications and data storage that exists without trees, has become a source of wonderful photographs and information about them. At her Website, A World Community of Old Trees , eco-artist June Julian has assembled tree paintings, photographs, computer graphics, videos, and sculptures.