To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

Cutting down trees was a suicidal act.

proved that trees possess all the same chemicals we have in our brains. Trees have the neural ability to listen and think; they have all the component parts necessary to have a mind or consciousness.

This belief, that a person should love others and nature as much as they loved themselves, was at the very heart of Celtic philosophy.

noticed that rare species tended to occur in places where a river ran into the sea and fresh water and salt water mingled.

go out into the sunshine. Take a stand and spread out your arms, palms up. Tilt your head up, too, and let the sunshine land on your face, your hands, the rest of you. Feel the sun on the surface of your skin. With this act, you are becoming like a tree. You are acting like a tree, with your arms spread out towards the sunshine just like the leaves

both love and respect the person I was becoming. By sewing acts of kindness and courage, I would reap the character I wanted to become

The photosynthetic reaction is the reverse of ordinary breathing.

He could approach each daunting task as though it were a bit of fun

trees created those conditions through the community of forests. Trees paved the way for the human family. The debt we owe them is too big to ever repay.