“Sandbox tree’s fruit explodes sending its seeds over 100 feet! It is an evergreen tree native to North and South America. Its fruits are pumpkin-shaped capsules with 16 carpels arranged radially. Upon ripening, the fruit will explode like a botanical hand-grenade carrying seeds up to 40 meters or 130 feet at 240 kph or 140 […]
Raven Loft
“Raven Loft is a small, sustainable treehouse in Canada. It measures only 2.4 x 4 meters or 8 x 13 feet and is a nice and cozy retreat with a small bathroom, a kitchen and a comfortable bed. Geoff de Ruiter, the owner bought a half-acre forested plot of land on Pender Island in British […]
Poem_Zonika van Zijl
“Your forest Oh the undescribable beauty That your forests hold, And how much it tells Without a single word being told. Each and every wanderer Being called, By the sun shining through the trees Looking like little streaks of gold. The pathway that leads to total Freedom of the soul, And you’re in your element […]
Poem_Sarah Stites
“The Tree Of Love Anyone can fall in love They can also fall out Of love as easy One should grow in love Like a tree that grows Takes root It grows many branches It takes on many leaves For nourishment It grows branches and a trunk For strength It gets stronger with age For […]
Poem_Melanie Wilson
“Falling They grow. Some on trees so tall Some on bushes, So very small. They fall. Such a long way to the ground Fluttering and floating all the way down. They all die. Such a pity how a beauty growing up high Lives such a short life only to die. They’re remembered. When you think […]
Poem_Lexa Klopfenstein
“The Trees The floor of the forest was sprinkled with leaves Nothing was about me but the tall bare trees You could hear a crunch with every step I took The lightning flashed, the clouds shook The moon began to rise with the glimmer in your eye The smile on your lips calmed the storm […]
Poem_Fab
“The Tree Love is climbing up a tree and falling with a scraped knee. But you don’t mind the scars; you still climb up with glee, ’cause love is having bruises, but choosing not to see. So, once again, I’ll climb the tree. By Fab”
Poem_Christina Rossetti
“An Apple Gathering I plucked pink blossoms from mine apple-tree And wore them all that evening in my hair: Then in due season when I went to see I found no apples there. With dangling basket all along the grass As I had come I went the selfsame track: My neighbours mocked me while they […]
Poem_A. E. Housman
“Loveliest of Trees Loveliests of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look […]
Peregrine falcon
“Peregrine falcon is the fastest aerial animal, fastest animal in flight, fastest bird and overall the fastest member of the animal kingdom. It can be found at the Grow-Trees.com project at Sundarbans and the highest measured speed is 389 km/h or 242 mph according to a National Geographic programme. It requires open space in order […]