TREES

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A group devoted to the art of trees: free medium. Without trees the world would be dead and a place of disaster. With trees the world can tackle global warming. Hug a tree and you hug the earth, you hug yourself and your neighbors. Without trees, no love!

Without love, no trees.

A sequel to the mail art project SIGNS and STONES and TREES (of 1998).

Guido Vermeulen started this group. After his death the IUOMA members keep it alive with posting photos and drawings of TREES in memory of Guido.

Location: Worldwide, global
Members: 234
Latest Activity: Jun 21

THE MAGIC OF TREES

Dear Guido,

I love trees!

Trees are so good to us, giving us oxygen to breathe, cleaning our water, providing shade in their life and shelter in their death.

They give us this paper, the pencil I write words with, and the envelope I painted.

Trees are magical, like all plants, magical little things that grow into magical big thins that are essential to so many of us other magical life forms in this amazing, magical universe.

TREES ARE MAGIC.

When I am with trees, big and small, I wonder like a child.

I know the scientific explanations of their life cycles and the processes of their doings.

I have even listened to trees as recorded by a hydrophone as their cells thirsted for water.

Still, no amount of knowledge can evaporate the mist of awe and wonder I feel in the presence of trees.

Trees are our kindred.

They, too, are born to live. And born to die.

In between they are silent witnesses to the magic of the universe.

Happy Earth Day,

Sarah Jo Pender, USA

From the Indiana Women’s Prison

April 2012

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Comment by Zois on December 23, 2011 at 4:08am: Oooh, thank you. What you've done here lifts my spirit. Reminds me of the act of kindness phenomenon of spreading feelings of well-being beyond the people involved to those who observe it and even to those who only hear about it.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 23, 2011 at 3:11am: From Katerina Nikoltsou, Greece

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 23, 2011 at 3:10am: From Ina Gerogianni, Greece

Comment by lorena lopez centell on December 20, 2011 at 2:49am: Los arboles que ame este verano-Fotografia estenopeica -Mar de las Pampas -Argentina

The trees that I loved this summer-Pinhole Photography- Mar de las Pampas-Argentina

Comment by Lynn Palmiter, Jr. on December 18, 2011 at 5:56pm: And another from the great Northwest...this and the previous one were taken by The Dak and processed from scans of the original color slides by me.

Mountain Lake in Storm

Comment by Lynn Palmiter, Jr. on December 18, 2011 at 5:44pm: One from the Northwest Coast near Seattle, Washington.

Trees and Wind

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 18, 2011 at 10:39am: Beautiful, so thanks Dak. The one with the finger speaks most to me!

Comment by Zois on December 18, 2011 at 3:39am: in winter we remember spring and celebrate fire (lighting candles) against ideas of pollution of the earth such as the Keystone XL pipeline project proposal.

Comment by Zois on December 18, 2011 at 3:31am: tree at Hildene, Manchester NY USA

Comment by Zois on December 18, 2011 at 3:07am: Ater cut to the deep cadmium layer: SURVIVAL!

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