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I met an old friend at MoMA yesterday, and passed by again the gargantuan digital work of Refik Anadol, " Unsupervised " in the gr...

By what pronouns shall I refer to trees - in my writing, or in class?  In English, trees are referred to as objects,  it.  At the very level...

I haven't been back to the Nicholas Roerich Museum since covid (last time was February 1, 2020) and was surprised to find the whole pla...

If you talk about religion and trees, you might - or should - be asked about "the tree with the lights in it." This phrase comes u...

My friend M and I are a little obsessed with ChatGPT, so when I stumbled on an article online that seemed ChatGPT-written (but it's from...

I like to think of the trees leaning out to greet us. There isn't a cell in my brain that believes this to be true, but it means I remem...

How many languages do you recognize?

All is definitely not well among the Lang courtyard maples.

I went to the Church of the Woods as part of exploring religion and trees, and certainly found confirmed my sense that trees in a wood are a...

I had the good fortune yesterday to attend the Church of the Woods , a piece of recovering New Hampshire woodland which the Reverent Stephe...

I'll tell you more soon, but today we worshipped with the Church of the Woods, in Canterbury, New Hampshire, on a perfect day.

Being in Canterbury, NH for the Church of the Woods, we couldn't not take a look at Canterbury Shaker Village . Still it felt a little o...

Despite their undeniable embeddedness in the environment, plants embody the kind of detachment human beings dream of in their own transcende...

I've noticed leafless trees in the courtyard for some   time  but hadn't counted them in a while. Today I counted eight entirely lea...

At some point I suppose I should tarry with Goethe's view that the life of a plant is understood best through leaves. (These little Bodh...

Lo, the tree beneath which the Buddha attained enlightenment! But it's not the one you think. This is one of five similar scenes depicte...