![]() ![]() ![]() These are the truly remarkable ones, including one that is the source of life, another the source of the knowledge of good and evil some that have a human ancestry, others human characteristics one that is soundless, another that speaks of the future, and still another that encompasses the entire world. Absent from the literature of trees, however, is a survey of those that have been created by and exist only in the human imagination. While trees have long been celebrated, their widespread admiration usually produces those field guides we all know, describing habitat, form, leaf and bark, meant to be carried with us as we wander the fields and woods, or, more rarely, those handsome books dedicated to arboreal beauty and character, such as those of Thomas Pakenham filled with fine photographs of extraordinary specimens. ![]()
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