Where have all our heritage acacia trees gone?

 Where have all our heritage acacia trees gone?

Photographs taken by the author on a running car all the way from Vigan to Laoag,  a stretch of 90 kilometers.

Dr Abe V Rotor

 “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein

Empty landscape meets the traveler

Emptiness is simplicity, purity, peace and order.

No.  Nothing exists in nothing - or least,

emptiness denies happiness and meaning of life;

leading many to solitude and loneliness.

                                    - A. V. Rotor

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." ― William Shakespeare

"Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being." ― Victor Hugo

A Cross on the Roadside

(A Cross in the Sky*)

I have lost you forever, 

Now a silhouette in the sky,

Spreading a gospel to remember, 

For the mindless passerby.

You live half of your life, 

Yet fullest at the Throne, 

Earning it well with strife,

Where every seed is sown. 

The birds now a flock,

The child a man;

You bid them all the luck,

And now they are gone.

In youth you sheltered me, 

A thought I can't be free,

I atone for your brevity,

With a thousand and one tree.

"I feel a great regard for trees; they represent age and beauty and the miracles of life and growth." ― Louise Dickinson Rich

 

The Highway Conquers All

The highway conquers all:

Trees on its shoulder, lawn between lanes;

in rich diversity now thinned out;

wildlife pedestrians crossing;

breeze swept into cyclone and dust;

bright, pure colors into kaleidoscope,

landscapes into haze and maze;

whisper and lull into sudden boom;

leaves fall in any season;

Give way to the king of the road;

now you see him, now you don't -

the Janus' god of the Good Life. 

- A,V,Rotor

"All our wisdom is stored in the trees." ― Santosh Kalwar

"On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree." ― W.S. Merwin 

 

"I think I shall finally see,

A kind-hearted man plant a tree,

For he who truly loves thee

Shall love others through a tree."

- A V Rotor, Light in the Woods

  “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” – Gerard De Nerval

 

"Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking." ― Wangari Maathai

 

"When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air." ― Jodi Thomas

 

"Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come." ― Karen Joy Fowler

 

"Trees do not preach learning and precepts. They preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life." ― Herman Hesse

"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky." ― Kahlil Gebran

 

 “Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”   John Muir

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.” – E. O. Wilson

* Reprint from Light in the Woods by Dr A.V. Rotor 1995