Clarence
Valley Environment Centre
Winter 2000 Newsletter
The mystery of trees...
Please keep sending us your tree stories
My Tree Story
The Forest
Secret
Rage at Greening Australia
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now," says the Once-ler, "Now that you're here, the word of the Lorax seems perfectly clear. UNLESS someone like you Cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not. "So... Catch!" calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds. And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs. Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. Grow a forest. Protect if from axes that hack. Then the Lorax And allof his friends May come back." |
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From the Lorax
by Dr. Seuss
(available from the C.E.C library - a story about bio-diversity, greed and hope.) |
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My favorite tree is an old iron bark (I don't know what sort) that you can see from our verandah, where I sit alot and meditate. The bark is rough and has many varied patterns. We have put a bird feeder in the tree and this attracts all sorts of birds, at all times of the day and year. In the summer a big, old green tree snake lives in the tree with a water dragon lizard. These two seem to live in harmony during the summer and depart to hibernate for the winter. I love this old tree and hug it often! - Kerry |
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Far away there is a forest with a secret. The secret is so huge and magnificent that this is only the second time it has been spoken of. The secret is this... the forest is dappled and cool and a hundred shades of green. It whispers. It rustles. The tree trunks are scaly and twisted and mossy. The forest is alive. It has ten thousand things happening in it an any one moment. Through the middle of the forest is a road. It is a smooth tar road... black, with a white broken line down the middle. There are cars on the road. In the cars are people. The people are enjoying being in their cars in the forest. They enjoy the sight of the tree-trunks rushing past at high-spped, and the blur of the leaves, and the way the trees back in the distance look so small, and the look of the trees looming up ahead. They think they are moving through the forest. But it is the forest that moves. The forest is rushing past the people. It whizzes through the landscape in a green blur. It moves so fast it makes a wind on the peoples' faces and blows their hair back. In no time at all it has streaked past them and receded into the distance. 'How wonderful to go zooming through the forest,' say the people. |
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Rage at Greening Australia Top of page "If this is Greening Australia, I'm completely buggered. It's like supermarkets of trees and it won't work. I went for a ride this morning and came back half broken hearted. The forestry had knocked down all the cattle camp trees. Lovely old figs. Now dead hollow things. Yes fig trees! They bowled them down and heaped them up. And all the nice little straight hardwoods you'd have got logs or posts from, the 'dozed them out' and 'dozed them up'."
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