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Our company has a poetic branch, so occasionally a relevant poem will be posted on our blog, the Goen Tree Cafe. You may also find interesting pictures, tree facts and studies, as well as topical essays from historical giants. Please feel free to submit your own tree-related posts to the blog. This open blog is edited in-house, so email us with any questions or concerns about the posted material.

Go take a hike

"E. O. Wilson coined the term biophilia hypothesis to propose that humans have an instinctual and deep emotional relationship with nature that is part of our subconscious. Love may be what is at work in a forest."
- an excerpt from Jim Robbins' The Man Who Planted Trees, 2015

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5/31/2019 1 Comment

The Mosaic Juniper (aka the alligator juniper)

by Goen Tree Care's own arborist Chad Goen, 2019

The mosaic juniper
Gnarled and knotted
Once boasted an artist's mastery upon its column
Now stands in defiance of cruel time like that at the Colosseum
There behind some swindly new pines like a monument behind some new-age bakery
There it is - looming and half dead, but also very much alive
The sway, the green, the hidden creatures
They all boast of what was and is
Like us when donning nostalgia's lens

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5/31/2019 1 Comment

Trees

by Joyce Kilmer, 1913

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's 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 with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

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