essenceofyggdrasil
Yggdrasil from Old Norse, is an immense mythical tree that connects the nine worlds in Norse cosmology.
As Portrait
from Robbin Milne
It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never saw a disconten...ted tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
- John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, (1938), page 313.
seeing trees as things with souls in a way, almost inhabited with a spirit, a presence.
Presented as a character with its own strengths and weaknesses.
Two old drawings from Ravenscourt Park, Shepherds Bush – winter 1976, before they succumbed to Dutch Elm disease.
I have managed to save four big elms at Shipping Hill along with numerous saplings – I just let the saplings carry on, weeded round them type of thing.
Who knows if they will survive?
Maybe until they get too big and become attractive to the parasite.
I suppose the first time I looked at trees as entities when a woodsman I knew told me about Dutch Elm disease.
Eddie Maddox up an Ash Shipping Hill c 1975
From a hedgerow – Shipping Hill – same year.
Eleanor Avery
Not the best reproduction, but an old favourite of mine is this Green Man (zero), an unpublished poster for London Transport.
Phil Gray.
I Dont know for sure if it was a Douglas Fir or a Scots Pine.
Whatever , it was the next tree up the hill. And not the one in the background.
I lost a friend when they cut the forestry down
Silver, gold Keumboo Tree Pendant.
Harriet St Leger
