The Comfort Trees
© By Nicholas Grimshawe
Today the trees got their voices back.
What’s that you ask? Trees and voices?
Yes, today when I went for my walk, the trees chatted happily to each other. You see for most of the winter, since leaf fall, the trees have been silent. During my winter walks I heard only the [...]

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?”
Source: E. M. Forster “Howards End ”
We can get very busy, totally involved in everyday issues, that we forget to look up to see the trees and the stars, or stop to [...]

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives [...]