Synthesis Paper: It's All About Trees

Every forest has a story to tell. By looking closely at its habitants, that story can be interpreted. Much of this narrative is written in the trees: their age, their tolerance to shade, and the rate at which they grow are all characteristics that can imply a lot about their environment. Exploring these relationships and how they connect with each other can indicate the health and history of the land. Heiberg Forest, located in northern New York, was once used for agricultural purposes in the 1800-1900’s. (Nowak, Lecture Notes) Much of the land once used for farming was left to regrow back into a young forest. The life history of different tree species can be determined by examining the most common species in Heiberg.

The affect of environmental issues occur everyday and in particular deforestation is becoming a highly ranked subject. From animals to the human race, the alacrity of trees that are cut down affects every individual in a variety of ways. Not only do people need to help the planet but they need to help themselves and further generations to come, such as children and grandchildren because these natural resources that are being taken away from society are as well shaping the future. For comprehensible reasons, forests use to make up the world, until man made creatures started to destroy and destruct the most important supply to human kind which are trees. Trees are crucial to every living entity for the reason of providing oxygen to all.

The Wild Trees is a book by Richard Preston about a small group of botanists that are curious about what the canopy of the redwood holds. The redwood tree comes from the sequoia family and is the largest single organism in the world. A group of people that include Michael Taylor, Steve Sillett, and Marie Antoine. Michael Taylor came from a wealthy family. His father did not want Michael to grow up spoiled. He tried to raise him as a middle class child who did not get whatever he wanted. Eventually when Michael went to college he did not pass his classes and decided to change his major. Michaels father was not very happy about this and gave him one last chance. Eventually when the time came again, Michael did not complete his classes for the

“Mom frowned at me… that gives it its beauty.” (p. 38) When Jeannette devises a plan to uproot the Joshua tree, which has grown sideways in the direction of the constant wind that passes over it, her mother quickly dismisses the idea. Rose Mary claims that the tree is beautiful not because it grows straight like the other trees, but rather because its struggle defines it and makes it unique. Rose Mary is typically unwilling to tamper with nature and she is particularly drawn to the unique form of the Joshua Tree. Through the figure of the tree a young Jeannette learns an important lesson about non-conformity.

Towering nearly 200 feet tall and covered in glistening moss, this tree captures the Pacific Northwest’s magical spirit. On Olympic National Park’s “World’s Largest Western Red Cedar Trail”, this tree remains a testament to the last 1,000 years of history. Western Redcedars were called “Life Giver” by Northwest Coast Indians due to their healing and spiritual influence. This tree is thought to drive out negative energy and draw in good influences. Standing in a tiny “room” in this trees’ buttress roots, you instantly feel its immense power radiate.

In the book “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson Melinda is going through a transformation, by explaining it in a form of trees. She is expressing herself not much by the form of speaking, but by the trees she creates in art class. It’s to explain on how she has been at her lowest and highest points in times. She faces all these transformations as from past events and future events in her high school. The majority of these events relate to her tree transformation from lowest to highest points.

In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech the author uses trees throughout the story to symbolize many different things. There are different kinds of trees: maple, oak, willow and aspen. Each type of tree “had a special flavour all of its own” (pg. 80) and represents a different thing in the novel. The Sugar Maple Tree symbolizes Sal and her mother.

The Palo Alto city seal includes an image of one of the very common, yet still absolutely stunning, Redwood trees in California. Fortunately for avid sports players and fans, this is not the only place that you will spot redwoods in the college town. Just around the corner at Stanford University their mascot, a tree, is entertaining a plethora of cheering fans with its funny twirls and dance moves. Some may say that the Stanford Tree is a boring and dull mascot, However the Stanford Tree is anything but mundane. The mascot should clearly be inducted into the Mascot Hall of Fame because of its very fun and memorable design, monumental performances, large impact on youth, big impression on the community, and marvelous effect

Native Americans are known for living in harmony with the land, animals, and other people in the world. In “The Education on Little Tree”, Forrest Carter illustrates the Cherokee respect and love for nature through the experiences of a young boy. The Education of Little Tree is a story of a boy who was orphaned and then adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression. Little Tree is shown how to respect nature in the Cherokee Way, taking only what is needed and leaving the rest for nature to run its course. The author vividly describes how the Cherokee live with the land, and had a respect for and a love of nature.

Nature has always provided a sanctuary for me, especially during the Spring and the Summer. The beautiful trees, flowers, and long grasses in the local nature preserve have always provided me with great joy and freedom in my leisure time. More importantly, I have always enjoyed doing nature hikes with my friends. In the Spring of 2013, I decided I wanted to hike with a group of people, instead of hiking by myself. I chose Allison, James, and Sheila to be my companions for a day-hike into the depths of the woodlands. During the hike, Allison told me about a really large oak tree that she had seen deep in the middle of the forest. She had actually given the tree a name: “Big Albert”. Allison had told us that she had named the tree after her big brother. Tragically, Albert had died in a car accident in 2010, so all of us were inspired to join Allison in this spiritual quest. All of us were very surprised to hear of this tree, since old oaks were very rare in these parts. We decided that it would be our mission to find

It took that long for this tree to grow to that size and we as humans can use it once it hits the ground. When the man was cutting the tree up with his saw and thinking of all the events that this tree lived through reminded me of when someone passes away and has a funeral. At the funeral, family members, friends, etc., think about all the things that the deceased person has done in life and been through. I was able to see a connection between both humans and this tree. In today's society with all the cutting down trees and deforestation in the world, the people that cut down these tree's don’t think about the tree as a living thing or think about the history of a tree. This makes me think of other resources that take centuries to create like sand, oil, and metal, which can take thousands of years to

The country's coastline is covered with national reserves designed to preserve the unique plants and animals that draw visitors from all over the world. The Madagascar Spiny Thicket is an unusual region in the south of the country. It is a cross between a forest and a desert. Most of the plants in this region are found only in Madagascar. Some trees grow tall with long, sharp spines and no branches, these are octopus trees. The famous Baobab tree has a fat trunk and stubby branches. This helps them to store lots of water along with their leaves that help store water as well. All of these characteristics help the plant survive for long periods without rain. A Baobab tree can create its own ecosystem and support the life of many different other creatures. It can support mammals all the way to thousands of tiny creatures crawling on its branches. Most birds make a nest in its wide branches, baboons come to eat the fruit. Also bush babies and fruit bats like drink the nectar and they also help pollinate the flowers on the tree. Elephants have been known to whittle down and eat an entire

First of all, after my presentation, I will review the forest landscape aspects of this book from my earlier in-class media presentation. For example, I will point out that the text says that Max’s room turned into a forest. Then, I will show the class how the text supports the aspects of the forest landscape in the illustrations through the imagery of the tree

The projects undertaken by PWD have not faltered to destroy the highland flora and the walnut, deodar, maples and pines have borne the brunt of the civilised moves of mankind. The author brings out the sheer tragedy of the reckless deforestation in his accounts like, “the walnut was one of the first to go. A tree I had lived with for over ten years, watching it grow just as I had watched Prem’s son, Rakesh, grow up…” He could feel the plight of the felling trees with the same pathos that he had felt for his young brother, who died on road to Delhi. Thus the author’s note, “both victims of the roads; the tree killed by the PWD, my brother by a truck.”- (Ruskin Bond, Collected Fiction, ‘Death of the Trees, page-

We know Christmas is the holiday where you go out and buy a tree to decorate . But do we actually think about the tree we are going to buy ? Well if your the type of person who likes buying natural trees next time you should probably would want to think about buying a natural one . I have three main reasons you should re-think about buying one , one reason is the habitats you are destroying , and how by cutting these tress cost the oxygen in which we breathe in . And the different price ranges , because as we know that artifical tress are less expensive compared to the natural ones . So here will be some reasons I am supporting these reasons .