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Article: Decade of the tree. (meditation on trees and tree planting)(includes related article) (Cover Story)
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- American Forests
- Article date:
- January 1, 1991
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1991 American Forests. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Guilt was what led me to plant my first tree. The year was 1969. Silent Spring was history, Earth Day'70 was fast approaching, and I was just settling into married life. It was my husband who suggested we buy a living tree that Christmas-I think it was a white pine-and plant it afterwards on the lawn of our new home. The idea struck a chord in my awakening environmental conscience.
Recently I've been talking with others about why they plant trees, what it is that trees mean to them, why they care so much about seeing that our planet stays green.
The more people I talk with, the more complicated the answer seems. Trees exert a mysterious ...