Clarence
Valley Environment Centre
Summer 2000
Newsletter
The Celebration Room
Mystery
of Trees Trees Heal the Heart
Trees Nourish the Spirit
Trees tell stories of our History Recyclers
Epitaph
Mystery
of trees.....
What do you feel from trees?
Why are they valuable to you?
"Taking time out to sit and look at trees can have a beneficial effect on blood pressure. A University of Texas study has found that trees are so good for the heart that blood pressure levels can drop within five minutes of watching them. Hospital patients with views of trees recover more quickly than those without, and commuters who live along tree lined roads experience lower stress levels than those who commute through built-up areas."
from S.M.H. Saturday December 4, 1999
Trees nourish the spirit Top of page
"Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason the woods were the place where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.....
Plants interested me too, but not in a scientific sense. I was attracted to them for a reason I could not understand, and with a strong feeling they ought not be pulled up and dried. They were living beings which had meaning only so long as they were growing and flowering - a hidden, secret meaning, one of God's thoughts. They were to be regarded with awe and contemplated with philosophical wonderment. What the biologist had to say about them was interesting, but it is not the essential thing. Yet I could not explain to myself what this essential thing was.
from C.G. Jung; Memories Dreams Reflections'.
Trees tell stories of our history Top of page
Some new mob arrived at the meeting place in Ngunawal territory. They came to join the embassy on the lawns of old parliament house. They set up camp around a small tree. Bad feeling and trouble came with them. The tree died, they left. Some people wanted to remove the dead sapling. But an elder said no. That dead tree has a message. It is a reminder of what happened. That tree is part of the story of this camp. If you want to know the full story go seek that tree.
If you have a tree story you'd like to tell please write to us.
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“I cannot think
of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do
in the theory of rebirth, I live in the hope that if not in this
birth, in some other birth, I shall be able to hug all of humanity
in a friendly embrace” |
Lay me in the dark ,wet earth,
Or dusty, dry, warm soil.
The clay that somehow gave me birth
And life and pain and toil.
And I will give it back in
full,
The laughter and the love,
The green of trees, the water coo,l
The sun and stars above.
And I will pay my debt to
earth
And wait my turn again,
‘til clay shall somehow give me birth,
I know not how or when
by
Margaret Knight
Clarence Environment Centre
17 Skinner Street
South Grafton NSW 2460 Australia
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