Mother Nature’s Moment - May 2021
by: Lesley Bruce Smith, ISA Certified Arborist

These last two years we have all learned about our deep needs as humans to be together. We were not meant to live in isolation, to spend long hours, days, months with very little meaningful interaction with others. Going about our days behind masks, unable to even read the cues that all of us take for granted in our unspoken communications with one another. We have been diminished by all of this and knowingly or unknowingly are in grief around all we have lost.

Mother Nature’s Moment May 2018
by: Lesley Bruce Smith, ISA Certified Arborist

The longer we work with trees the more amazed we are at their ability to communicate, not only with us, but with each other. This seems like a ludicrous idea to many, simply because trees’ ability to communicate is not like our own. They do not use words, yet as we learn more about the way they communicate, it is surprising and often astonishing. They are so much wiser than we think.