Welcome to Natureglo's Trees Virtual Library! It's the result of my teaching online botany courses to upper elementary and middle homeschool kids.
Here's a quote below for this course related to trees:
"That night in the tree made me understand the oak more than any book. I didn't know her exact age, but I knew she was old. I learned the sounds she makes when a wind of over a hundred knots whips at her branches. I know what her wood sounds like when it is broken green from her ancient body. I know the color she turns as she soaks the rain into her thick skin, and the odor she emits from her wet bark. I know her fully clothed, changing, and naked, and I have seen her bleed. That night in the tree I realized how our ancestors could worship her in their anthropomorphic way, because that night I discovered that she had a soul.
The soul of a tree is not like the soul of a human being. It is its personality. The willow has a soul that cries for man. The ash has a soul that laughs. The birch has a pure soul, the pine is gentle, the dogwood innocent, the aspen fickle, the sweet gum sultry, the beech enchanting, the redwood majestic.
The oak has a sacred soul. It is strong and protective. The oak is a friend to man. The gallant way it stands against the elements is an inspiration, and I honestly feel that she spoke to me that night and beckoned me to come into her branches for protection against the forces. I believe she saved my life. Call it instinct if you care to, or call it intuition, or a sixth sense that registered in my subconscious the fact that there was a weak limb fifty feet over my hut, or call it luck. I call it a miracle.
The night of the storm, I learned all about a tree..." - Tom Brown, Jr., from The Search