From the cocoa tree that gives us chocolate to the Philippines’ rainbow tree, a global tour of rooted marvels. Hermann Hesse called trees “the most penetrating of preachers.” Three centuries earlier, a forgotten English gardener asserted that they “speak to the mind, and tell us many things, and teach us many good lessons.” Perhaps because…
via Strange Trees: An Illustrated Atlas of the World’s Arboreal Wonders — Brain Pickings
