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The Giving Trees
Did you read yesterday’s New York Times Op-Ed Why Trees Matter, written by friend of A Life’s Work Jim Robbins? That's Jim in the tree.No? Well click the link and check it out. You may be surprised to...
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The Man Who Planted Trees – Guest Blogger Jim Robbins
I met Jim Robbins when I followed David Milarch around a grove of Redwoods in Northern California in the fall of 2007. It was a tense shoot (you can read about it here), and Jim’s cool presence did a...
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A Quote About Trees and a Calculator
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. William Blake. I’m not one for name calling, but it is certainly true that when a person like David Milarch or Jim Robbins, author of The Man Who...
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Paolo Soleri Plants a Tree
When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago. The second best time? Today. – Chinese proverb Paolo Soleri plants a tree. This proverb could easily have accompanied this photo. The post Paolo...
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Quotes: Teddy Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Yosemite A Quote from Teddy Roosevelt I was looking through Barbara Bosworth’s stunning book of photos, Trees, when I came upon this quote in the accompanying essay...
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The Best Way to Hug a Tree I was in a patch of Michigan forest admiring a pine tree, one tree among thousands. I stopped and stared at it. “There’s something about that tree,” I said. “That tree speaks...
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Photographer Barbara Bosworth – Interview
When I was at the MacDowell Colony in 2010, I met a fine photographer, Matthew Connors. When I told him about the people in A Life’s Work, he asked if I knew the work one of his colleagues at the...
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“I must have more shots of the military!”
I’ve been editing a section of A Life’s Work that relies on some archival footage, so I’ve been searching and watching and thinking and searching and watching and cutting. A new post about archival...
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Trees as Monuments: A Quote
Five beautiful trees on the Sweet Briar College campus.Trees are the best monuments that a man can erect to his own memory. They speak his praises without flattery, and they are blessings to children...
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Trees as Timelines
I was recently out West where I saw this: Closer inspection revealed that this structure sheltered a large chunk of tree trunk. This was once the largest Ponderosa Pine tree. There are many of these...
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