Dear Sarah, how wonderful you describe your/our relationship with trees, and especially the oak tree. I have always been a tree lover and I know trees are one of the most important living creatures we need and we must protect! The oak tree is a tree with a huge biodiversity on it, and so it is a tree which I love very much. Thanks for this reminder!
Thank you for these kind words Ivan, it is so encouraging to hear from like minded tree lovers, they do so much for us and ask nothing, the least we can do is try to speak for them:)
Thank you Sue, Kintyre is lovely, I’m so pleased you have visited. We spend a fair amount of time down your way too, we have family over by Pontburn Woods, Burnopfield, and love the woodlands with their extraordinary industrial history, very different but no less magical. Stories waiting to be discovered:)
Ah yes, my son lives on the edge of town and cycles to work along wagonways that dissect woodlands. I’m all for the trees! In face, they are the focus of my second book.
Thank you Helen. I increasingly believe that the answers lie within the wonderful indigenous languages across the world. The context though, without absorbing as well the cultural connection to the land would undoubtedly be lost in translation. I feel as though English as we know it developed through a patriarchal society, intent on control of nature and domination of other cultures. To go back to Celtic, Norse, Gaelic origins may get me closer to an original connection to nature lived by our distant ancestors. I will continue with my wonder filled wanderings, the journeys are so much greater than just physical!
Dear Sarah, how wonderful you describe your/our relationship with trees, and especially the oak tree. I have always been a tree lover and I know trees are one of the most important living creatures we need and we must protect! The oak tree is a tree with a huge biodiversity on it, and so it is a tree which I love very much. Thanks for this reminder!
Thank you for these kind words Ivan, it is so encouraging to hear from like minded tree lovers, they do so much for us and ask nothing, the least we can do is try to speak for them:)
Thrilled to have discovered a kindred spirit here, Sarah. We visited your neck of the woods in our van, loved it!
Thank you Sue, Kintyre is lovely, I’m so pleased you have visited. We spend a fair amount of time down your way too, we have family over by Pontburn Woods, Burnopfield, and love the woodlands with their extraordinary industrial history, very different but no less magical. Stories waiting to be discovered:)
Ah yes, my son lives on the edge of town and cycles to work along wagonways that dissect woodlands. I’m all for the trees! In face, they are the focus of my second book.
Sue it was on my reading list before you even mentioned trees :)
I'm still writing it!!
that makes the waiting even more exquisite:)
I wonder if other languages might give us more appropriate pronouns or descriptives? Lovely essay x
Thank you Helen. I increasingly believe that the answers lie within the wonderful indigenous languages across the world. The context though, without absorbing as well the cultural connection to the land would undoubtedly be lost in translation. I feel as though English as we know it developed through a patriarchal society, intent on control of nature and domination of other cultures. To go back to Celtic, Norse, Gaelic origins may get me closer to an original connection to nature lived by our distant ancestors. I will continue with my wonder filled wanderings, the journeys are so much greater than just physical!