Sympathy for the Tree
Sympathy for the Tree belongs to the following groups:
Complex Simplicity of Art and The Word TreeWhen a tree falls out of anyone’s earshot
I know it still crashes with great power
The booming cacophony echoes loudly,
So that flora all around shy away in cower.
Now, when humans cut them down and chop them up for wood
the result is all progress and creation, so in that case, it is good
But when a massive oak falls down alone, without intended purpose
I’d judge it makes all trees (all sizes) all around it quite nervous
Think…
Not taken and used, but just rotting there slow
Yes, if I fell alone in the forest,
I would screech as I go…
LocoCow
Profound and astute statement….
hilarydougill
Very profound, graphic and thought provoking, you have all the elements needed for greatness.
butchart
maybe i’m missing the obvious..(it is still early here)............but i would think no better way for a tree to die…. in the solitude from hence it arose…. and in the rotting it doth live again….......b
darkestartist
beautiful i love it.
Hilton Briscoe
oooh a very intellectual view Gordon.
I’m not intellectual.
I would agree with Butch, there is no better way for a tree to die than in the place it was “born”, killed by the ravage of time rather than a chain saw to be bent to serve our purpose.
Nature wastes nothing/very little, the tree would rot and feed fungii, insects, bacteria and new trees grow using the nutrients from the decayed tree, it is the first step in a greater and more beautiful(IMO) purpose than what we use wood for. Natures way may take a while but I doubt it notices, time is our concept not natures.
What worse indignity is there than to be chopped up into small amiable pieces to be burnt and sent into a place where wood should never go, or to be cut down into long thin blocks to be used as legs for chairs for fat lazy humans to sit on.
I sound so stupid now but… I feel strongly about it.
Paul Compton
So clever. Really beautiful. (I must say I would be content to rot away silently to the earth from which I came.) Great work Gordon.