The connection between mankind and trees has recently gone a step further with bio urns, that essentially let people have their ashes buried in an urn that grows a tree.

Humans produce carbon dioxide that trees breath and trees produce the oxygen that we need.

Tree worship, known as dendrolatry, refers to the tendency of societies throughout history to worship and mythologize trees.

Symbolism of Trees and Tree Burials The Living Urn

Elegant Rocks and Sparse Trees, 秀石疏林 Fallen Leaves, 落ち葉 (Ochiba) Figures in a Spring Landscape (Sacred Grove)

Heroine Rushing to Her Lover (Abhisarika Nayika)

A Wheatfield, with Cypresses (September )

Trees Themes in Art Obelisk Art History

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.

Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.

For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

The Prophet, Khalil Gibran

Contemporary botanical art is distinguished from floral art in its botanical accuracy and from ordinarily descriptive botanical illustration found in medical or scientific works as it results in metaphoric art that takes on almost mythic representation.

The mission of the Great River Chapter (GRC) is to create public awareness and appreciation for historical and contemporary botanical art in our community; educate the public in plant diversity, to support regional ecology and preservation; to introduce the public to the beauty and usefulness of botanical art through exhibitions; and, to provide a forum for artists to meet, share ideas, and learn from one another.

Botanical Art History

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of sceneryair, mountains, trees, people.

I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

Exploring the essential balance and beauty of nature in search of a simple truth in the human experience. With his many studies of trees, Piet Mondrian demonstrated his process of distilling the essence of beauty from naturally harmonious forms.

Yet, at the same time they are balanced compositions that also respond to, and reflect, their environment along with the action of time.

He was attracted to trees because of their complex and often chaotic structure.

Piet Mondrians Tree Paintings. Exploring the essential balance and by Remy Dean Signifier Medium