Trees are Benevolent Hosts
The tree laughs, talks, with all the joys of childhood. "A tree is a joy forever." - avr
Dr Abe V Rotor
LIVING with NATURE CENTER
San Vicente, Ilocos Sur
"Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish."― Munia Khan
1. The tree laughs, talks, with all the joys of childhood. "A tree is a joy forever." Tandang Sora QC
"Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come." ― Karen Joy Fowler
2. Playing hide-and-seek in a bamboo grove. The spirit of the place gives quaintness to living.Taal, Batangas
"Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world."― John Muir
3. A fallen mango tree makes a romantic ambiance. (Atimonan, Quezon)
"You know me, I think there ought to be a big old tree right there. And let's give him a friend. Everybody needs a friend."― Bob Ross
4. Phylodendron gains foothold on Dita tree (Alstonia scholaris) as it reaches for the sun several meters high. UST Botanical Garden
"Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year."― Chad Sugg
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."― Nelson Henderson
6. Fruticose lichen clings on bark of tree. Lichens are communities of algae and fungi. They aid in food production and recycling of organic matter, as well as help conserve water. Caliraya Lake, Laguna
"When you plant a tree you plant a legacy."— Pepper Provenzano
7. Drynaria fern as ephipyte helps conserve water, attract wildlife that protects trees from pests anddiseases. It is not unusual that a branch gives way to the weight of the tenant fern. Tagudin, Ilocos Sur
"Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being."― Victor Hugo
8. Roots are exposed by slow erosion reveal tenacity of this tree. The tree allows growth of plants and animals like millipede and land snails, as well as micrororganims, many are symbionts to the tree. Mt Makiling Botanical Garden, UPLB
"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."— Warren Buffet
9. Interlacing roots, principle of inarching, riprap slopes and banks, provide abode to many organisms. Mt. Makiling, Laguna.
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."― Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Algae and mosses live on the spongy bark of acacia, providing nutrients to the tree, and creating a favorable microclimate. UP Diliman, QC
"A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun, and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees."— Anton Chekhov
11. Crustose lichen coats trunk of young tree. Lichens are important to the tree; they also indicate pristine condition of the environment. Caliraya Lake, Laguna
"In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike."— Paolo Coelho
12. Even after death the tree remains a host to red mushroom, termites, other saprophytes and decomposers, giving off its entire energy to serve the living world.
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