For trees, memory is not a metaphor but a biological reality, written into their cells. One of the most remarkable forms this takes is epigenetic memory: the ability of a tree to record its life ...
On the island of St. Croix, the largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands, a nearly 300-year-old baobab tree stands firmly in the center of a grass field. Its 50-foot-wide, swollen trunk and winnowy branches ...
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The Memory of Trees

I wished for the tree to remain standing in this place. Thus, the bus stop embraced the tree. —From a sign hanging on a ginkgo tree at the bus stop in front of Jeonju Jangang Cathedral It is difficult ...