Canada and theForests

Canada's boreal forest is the largest contiguous intact forest left on Earth and the second largest frontier forest. It covers 35 percent of the country's land area and is home to the world's largest caribou herd, the second -highest wolf population, and polar, black and grizzly bears. About three billion birds nest there each year. (Source: David Suzuki Foundation)

Tree Proverbs

The oldest tree often bears the sweetest fruit.  German Proverb

One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade.  Chinese Proverb

We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls.

We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything. Buddha

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Skye tree finished

stages of growth - the skye tree

Grove

Amber has a pine aroma when heated, and the ancient Germans used amber and burned it as incense, and called it bernstein or "burn stone."

A Lithuanian legend tells of Jurata, the queen of the mermaids,who lived in an amber palace. She fell in love with a mortal,the fisherman Kastytis and took him beneath the waves to live with her in her palace.  This so angered Perkunas the thunder god, that he hurled  a thunderbolt which destroyed her palace and killed her love.  Not content with this, he chained her to the ruins of her palace where she continually weeps tears of amber. 

Phaeton son of Helios was not able to control the sun god's chariot when he took the reins without permission - scorching the earth. Zeus hurled a thunderbolt - destroying the chariot and killing Phaeton whose body fell into the sea. His sisters gathered at the water and wept for their brother. Zeus, unable to bear their lamentation turned them into poplar trees ringing the shore. 

Even as trees they continued to weep. Their tears were transformed into amber. 

Red Sky, Blue Leaves