May 2008 Archives
The award-winning show was based on Common Vision's DVD "Planting the Vision." The
special episode of "Natural Heroes" aired on PBS across the nation. This award is a huge
tribute to programs like Natural Heroes and the featured groups that
are working for positive change. We hope many more people will see the
show and be inspired to plant a tree in their community!
Watch a 6-minute trailer for the DVD "Planting the Vision" below.
Watch a 6-minute trailer for the DVD "Planting the Vision" below.
> Watch the Natural Heroes Fruit Tree Tour Promo on the Natural Heroes site
Occasionally, I get into a poetic mood. Today's one of those days. Slightly sentimental. Slightly 40,000 foot view on the world. Slightly beauty obcessed.
A couple elegant, tall, stately trees are my constant companions as I type to you. When my eyes need a break from the computer screen, they turn to these two friends. I watch their leaves dance in the wind. And turn a million shades of green as the seasons give them new life, abundant growth and then sap their maturity and cause them to flutter to the ground in the late summer and autumn breezes.
Yes, I love trees. Not just because of their beauty...but because the more I learn about trees, the more I admire their everyday work, their community spirit and their productivity. They take sunshine and rain from the sky and turn it into food for butterflies and birds and mammals and yes, us.
They crack rocks open with their delicate new roots. They create pathways for water and nutrients to filter down into deeper and deeper layers of soil. And then they shed their leaves annually to create compost and new soil.
Trees give shade. They give fruit and nuts. They give twigs to the birds to build nests. They give deer scratching posts. They cradle homes in their branches for birds and beetles and spiders and lizards... and some even grow in swamps and lakes and give homes to fish and frogs and snakes.
Tall trees like redwoods pump moisture up to the tipty tops of their branches further than engineers have been able to duplicate with our high tech pumps.
... have you caught the tree fever yet? Do you have a favorite friend outside your windows that gives you graceful, gentle respite? I hope you do...and if you don't, I hope you will plant one and watch it grow into a stately young adult...rejoicing with it every season and dancing with it on every breeze!
A couple elegant, tall, stately trees are my constant companions as I type to you. When my eyes need a break from the computer screen, they turn to these two friends. I watch their leaves dance in the wind. And turn a million shades of green as the seasons give them new life, abundant growth and then sap their maturity and cause them to flutter to the ground in the late summer and autumn breezes.
Yes, I love trees. Not just because of their beauty...but because the more I learn about trees, the more I admire their everyday work, their community spirit and their productivity. They take sunshine and rain from the sky and turn it into food for butterflies and birds and mammals and yes, us.
They crack rocks open with their delicate new roots. They create pathways for water and nutrients to filter down into deeper and deeper layers of soil. And then they shed their leaves annually to create compost and new soil.
Trees give shade. They give fruit and nuts. They give twigs to the birds to build nests. They give deer scratching posts. They cradle homes in their branches for birds and beetles and spiders and lizards... and some even grow in swamps and lakes and give homes to fish and frogs and snakes.
Tall trees like redwoods pump moisture up to the tipty tops of their branches further than engineers have been able to duplicate with our high tech pumps.
... have you caught the tree fever yet? Do you have a favorite friend outside your windows that gives you graceful, gentle respite? I hope you do...and if you don't, I hope you will plant one and watch it grow into a stately young adult...rejoicing with it every season and dancing with it on every breeze!
