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 Trees." Discussion of of relation between humans and trees in shamanic cultures.
by Brian Bates
resurgence.gn.apc.org/articles/bates.htm

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

"Cultural Aspects of Trees: Traditions and Myths"
by Kim Coder
www.forestry.uga.edu

"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

The Mythology of Trees
by Diane Edgecomb
www.livingmyth.com/about/trees_write.asp

"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."

"Living with the Spirit of Trees"
by Fred Hageneder:
spirit-of-trees.net

"The Tree of Life"
by Fred Hageneder:
spirit-of-trees.net/tree_of_life_e.html

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

International Community of Ecopsychology (I.C.E)
"Gatherings," issue #7, winter 2002-2003
www.ecopsychology.org/gatherings7/toc.html
This issue of this online newsletter offers an electic collection of essays related to trees

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

From Mystical World Wide Web
Selected tidbits about mythical aspects of trees.
www.mystical-www.co.uk/trees.htm

"Forest Beloved"
by Janisse Ray
http://worldashome.org/excerpt.asp?title=117
A moving tribute to the longleaf pine. This evokes the grandeur and mystery of a particular tree species and more generally, of an old growth forest.

"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

"Mythical Dimensions of Trees: Their Relation to the Human Psyche
as Reflected in Dreams, Myths,and Cultural Traditions"
by Herbert Shroeder
www.sorceryn.com

Sacred Peepul Tree (Holy Fig Tree)
www.urday.com/peepal.htm

"The Healing Wisdom of Africa"
by Malidoma Patrice Some
www.the-tree.org.uk
Personal 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

"Tales of the Mythic Forest"
by Terri Windling
www.endicott-studio.com

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