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    One Tree
    One Tree
    One Tree
    Ebook52 pages35 minutes

    One Tree

    By Gretchen C. Daily, Charles J. Katz Jr. and Alvaro Umaña

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    Environmental scientist Gretchen C. Daily and photographer Charles J. Katz describe how one relict tree, the magnificent Ceiba tree in a village in Costa Rica, carries physical and spiritual importance far out into the world
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrinity University Press
    Release dateJun 16, 2018
    ISBN9781595348531
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      Book preview

      One Tree - Gretchen C. Daily

      One Tree

      Un árbol único

      One Tree

      Un árbol único

      Traducción al español y revisión de textos • Marybel Soto-Ramírez • Francisco Vargas-Gómez

      Trinity University Press • San Antonio, Texas | Editorial Universidad Nacional • Costa Rica

      Contents

      Foreword

      One Tree

      Acknowledgments

      Prólogo

      Un árbol único

      Agradecimientos

      Foreword

      Álvaro Umaña Quesada

      MY FIRST ENCOUNTER with the magic of trees came at an early age, when my parents took my siblings and me on outings to the edge of the cloud forests north of Heredia, or those near the Poás and Irazú volcanoes. I was instantly enchanted with the trees in these forests, each one an ecosystem covered by mosses of many shades of bright green and hosting hundreds of types of bromeliads. Vines, hanging white lichens, and a thousand species of birds and butterflies made for an explosion of life that I had never seen before.

      These early experiences are still vivid in my memory. They gave me a feeling for nature similar to what E. O. Wilson calls biophilia, the love of trees and all living creatures. My family and I came back to the same spots and visited many unique trees, for no two are alike. Some offered lower hanging branches that were easy to climb and gave us access to the canopy’s secrets.

      Trees live at the boundary of the earth’s surface, joining worlds above and below. Their roots tap the soil, minerals, and moisture held in the ground. They are a primary connection to the atmosphere, both by generating oxygen through photosynthesis and by transpiring huge quantities of water into the air, equivalent to half of the rainfall in the Amazon. Trees are connected to the rest of nature in multiple and intricate ways. They are the engines that capture energy from the sun to make our forests green, and they are also one of the drivers of our planet’s water and nutrient cycles.

      It is no coincidence that the metaphor of the tree of life is prevalent in so many mythical cosmologies. For the ancient Maya, the sacred ceiba tree connects the three layers of the world. The roots reach into the underworld of death, the trunk in the middle is the world of life, and the branches reach into the upper world of paradise. In much of Africa, the magnificent baobab tree is considered the tree of life. In California and the Pacific Northwest, the giant redwoods and sequoias inspire awe with their sheer commanding presence, size, and longevity. All of these gentle

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