PORTFOLIOS > The Arborist

2009-2012 and forever

My lifelong love affair with trees...


The life of a tree is a hundred and a thousand years; its decays ornamental; its repairs self-made: they grow when we sleep, they grew when we were unborn.

But we must look forward also, and make our-selves a thousand years old; and when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks over-shadowing our children in a remote century, this mute green bank will be full of history: the good, the wise and great will have left their names and virtues on the trees; heroes, poets, beauties, sanctities, benefactors, will have made the air timeable and articulate.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson