Have you ever felt a connection with a tree/ plant?

Question

We all knw that even trees have life, just like us. But cutting a tree dwn in your compound is so much more easier dan cutting your own pet dog(just an example). All many people can see in a tree is it growing, and moving with the wind and all
but i am sure that there is more to it than 1 observes
can u tell me details about it?
have you ever felt the tree to be your friend?
attatched to it?

Answer 1

on a hot summer afternoon when our parents were resting , my sister and I ( about 8-9) ate two juicy peaches and decided to plant the stones. We had read a story about a boy planting a peach tree and we were very impressed by it. We forgot all about those two peach stones. one or two years later my mother noticed two little trees in our little garden. They are peach trees, she announced. And we remembered our secret planting. My mom changed the place of one of them to give them both more room to grow. As we grew, they grew, blossoming in pink and very soon the biggest and juiciest and yummiest peaches in the world were hanging down their branches. Every year all our friends and family members asked for one. The trees were small but very fruitful. When I was nearly 20 and my dear sister 21, I lost her in a car accident. It was a real shock to me, my mother, my other sister and our brother and i think to the peach trees: one of them only few weeks after my sister's death went dry with no obvious reason and no treatment could stop it.

Answer 2

I've always felt an attachment to trees. There are certain trees which feel more inviting than others. There are trees you just seem to veer away from... they're not 'friendly'. I suppose one of the most profound experiences I had was during meditation. I was trying to communicate w/a tree that I was sitting under. It was spring. I envisioned entering the tree, feeling it from the inside. What I felt surprised me. I itched. I mean I REALLY ITCHED. It was the sap starting to move up for the warm season. I'd never considered such a thing. Later I thought about that and how the winds are quite brisk in the spring. Maybe as an assist to scratching that itch?

Answer 3

When we apply the ethical weights to things to place on the infamous moral scales of right and wrong humans seam to get placed at the top and trees near the bottom, dogs some where in the middle. There are many reasons why. Some might say that humans are better capable of appreciating. Some might say that humans are the only ones who should get consideration, and the others (trees and dogs) get morel weight only in how they relate to humans. Still others and we lean this way think that humans are capable of doing the most good so they should be assigned greater moral weight. With this weight comes responsibility.

Answer 4

This is my answer through a poem:

Who am I?
I am a single leaf among the multitude
Serving the same single purpose
Sharing the blessings of light, water, and sunlight
Not only for myself but for the tree.

Who am I?
That the Voice of the wilderness
Would call out the storm and watch over me
Would let me stand in a desert land

Who am I?
I am dust in the wind
I am a vapor in the ocean
I am a leaf among the multitude.

I am a leaf of a good tree.

Answer 5

Sure I feel a connection with all living things, I am Wiccan.

This poem kind of says it all:

To walk the path
When I feel alone I walk outside
I breathe in deep and take in the life giving air
I feel the gifts that has been given us all
I hear the leaves whisper my name
I feel the love that connects us all
I see the rose and take a sniff
the sweet smell fills my soul
I see the hawk flying free and I am free
I look to the west and the sun says goodbye
with its brilliant colors
I look to the east an the moon raises from its sleep
to start its watch
I hear the owl asking its question
and I know I have much to learn
As I behold all of these gifts
I am reminded I am never alone
Now that I walk nature's true path

Zina Rae Brownlee
Copyright ©2007 Zina Rae Brownlee

Answer 6

Yes more than one occasion for a particular tree that was growing just outside our compound wall entrance gate.
Then while watching the completely denuded trees during winter in a different scenario and later to see them back in full green ;anyone watching them can feel connected.Regarding the intervention the tree near the compound I can recollect it with warmth .

Answer 7

I love what everyone has shared so far. Thank you for the two poems shared. Both are creative. Before I share my story I would like to comment on "I'm Nobody's" short story:

I was so moved by this story. I could see the pictures in my mind rolling like a movie tape and in the end I felt tears welling up, not only for his loss, but the message: humans have a special connectivity with earth and can create loving relationships or destructive ones depending on our thoughts. The tree was so loved by the sister in this story, that just like when an elderly couple loses their partner, it is no coincidence that several weeks/months after, the other partner joins them. I've heard of this happening many times, including to my grandparents.

I'm Nobody: if you're reading this I want to tell you that I read this story to my sister and she said that she could see this as a children's book. She could see beautiful illustrations. I wonder if you might consider this. Thank you for sharing this.

One night I was with my partner on a hike in our local mountains. The only light we had was the round moon.
We had traveled the path many times in light, but not at night and so it was eerie to think of all the noctural creatures I didn't know that might startle us in this quiet.
There was one tree that I felt especially drawn to. I had to stop. I had to feel it's rough skin with my own. Before I knew it, I was embracing it and it was in this communion that I heard it speak to me. It said to go over to a wild brush and sit under it. I looked to the left of me, and there was the brush about 100 steps away from me, up from the ground enough for me to sit under it's shadow. I was freaked out. I didn't want to do it. I took baby steps and shaking I sat under that brush for a long while letting all the thoughts of snakes, spiders, insects I didn't know, and small rodents pass through my vacuum/mind, until I felt unafraid and serene. I achieved something that night and I thanked that tree for it's direction.

Good question.

Answer 8

Hi,

Thats a very good question asked,infact human and trees do have spiritual connection knowingly or unknowingly.Trees have been honored throughout the world and through all time as steadfast providers. Trees generate oxygen to sustain living breath. They become shelters and burrows for animals of many shapes and sizes as well as offer resources for food and medicine. They secure ground from erosion and raw materials garnered from trees provide shelter, warmth, amenities, art and utensils.

The tree is one of humankind's most powerful symbols. It is the embodiment of life in all its realms: the point of union between heaven, earth and water. In most mythology and ancient religious imagery, the tree was believed to have an abundance of divine creative energy. During the Middle Ages, it was common for a traveler to entrust one's health and safety to a tree spirit. These trees were known as guardian trees, and as long as they were healthy, the journey, it was believed, would go well.

As said by David Henry "The trees indeed have hearts with a certain affection the sun seems to send its farewell ray far and level over the copses of them, and they silently receive it with gratitude, like a group of settlers with their children."

The man who planted trees set about his mission to regenerate life in a corner of desolation. He fostered spiritual guides for thousands and thousands to come. Each time we plant or care for a tree we are creating room and focus for pure and precious life giving energy. It is from this work that we live. It is by this beauty we are blessed. It is in this moment that we breathe. Because of trees. Because of trees.

As Saint Bernard has said:You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

Angelfromgod

Answer 9

Call me a mad man if you wish, but I can feel the pain of a tree being cut down.

Answer 10

Yes. Its hard not to if you garden often and watch them grow and develop. My eyes have actually watered when I had to kill my crops because in some way I felt they were and extension of me, and in another I felt we both were an extension of the earth.
I loved my plants almost as much as I did my pets, because they're versatile and if you give them enough space they will fluorish and bloom.