Online essays about the symbolic and cultural dimension of trees as well as some tree-related personal essays. Posted alphabetically by author or sponsoring organization. See, too, the commentaries accompanying the selection of Featured Stories at this website.

"Ten Great Books About Trees" Riverbank Review of Books for Young Readers, Summer 2001 issue.
www.riverbankreview.com/trees.html

"Sacred Trees in New York City"
by Nathaniel Altman
www.healingsprings.com

"Sacred Groves: Roots of Our Culture"
posted at Canada First website
(long, informative essay with many photos and other links)
www.canadafirst.net

"Ecological Traditions of Tamil Nadu"
"Sacred Groves of Tamil Nadu"
"Sacred Trees Of Tamil Nadu"
Essays from C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre
cpreec.org

"Sacred Stories in Nature"
by Diane Edgecombe
www.livingmyth.com

"Homage to Trees"
by Wendy Fern
www.fernwerks.com/HTTIntr.html
Description and some photos of an artist's book created by Wendy Fernstrum. Includes short essays on "Trees that Heal," "Trees for Wisdom," "Trees for Transformation," "Trees for Fertility."

"Under the Greenwood Tree"
by Jeremy Harte
www.indigogroup.co.uk

International Community of Ecopsychology (I.C.E)

Several essays by Glennie Kindred
"The Oak Tree: King of the Greenwood"
www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/oak.htm
"Wisdom of the Apple Tree"
www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/apple.htm
"The Power of the Willow Tree"
www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/willow.htm
"The Yew: Sacred Tree of Transformation and Rebirth"
www.whitedragon.org.uk
There are similar essays on other tree varieties at this site.

"To A Lover of Trees, Winter Is A Reward"
by Robert Klose.
www.csmonitor.com/2004/0128/p22s03-hfes.htm
(Especially wonderful on the subject of apple trees!)

"Spirit of Trees"
by Lisa Mahon
www.dailywriting.net

"World Tree"
by Hazel Minot
www.theosociety.org

"The Mystic Geography of the Woods"
by Boria Sax
www2.h-net.msu.edu

Nature Worship in India
www.gurjari.net
Links to an essay on sacred trees, with sublinks to myths, customs and traditions surrounding particular trees such as coconut, peepul, tulsi, neem, bel, banyan

sonal narrative about the author's powerful emotional encounter with a tree during an African initiation ceremony.

"The Peg at the Heart of Play"
by Kim Stafford
www.treelink.org

"One Tree"
by Terry Tempest Williams
www.treelink.org

"Sacred Place: Trees and the Sacred"
by Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe
witcombe.sbc.edu/sacredplaces/trees.html