Sublime

and Cambodia and Thailand’s forest monks have led a grass-roots movement of sacralizing trees by wrapping them in saffron robes and performing rites in order to save the remaining forests (see

Leigh’s elm, Jean’s ash, Emmett’s ironwood, and Adam’s maple, each made from identical green puffballs.

A tree of great intelligence, he called it, a camel among trees, able to store enough water to keep it going through long periods of drought, an almost everlasting tree. There were some around Jerusalem, he told me, that are estimated to be two thousand years old. In Provence, the olive has gone through some hard times, suffering from both man and