TREE OF LIFE
"When you try to pick out anything by itself, you find it hitched to everything else in the universe." - John Muir
This series is a tribute to trees. Trees can exist without us but we cannot exist without them. Trees humble us as they exemplify healthy growth, strength, resilience and coexistence in a community.
These photographs of trees, and succulents, were mostly taken in Joshua Tree National Park, Sequoia National Park, the Redwoods and Saguaro. Sequoias are among the largest and oldest living organisms on the planet dating 3000 years. Joshua Trees provide several species in the Mojave desert ecosystem with food and habitat while it’s own life is dependent on pollination from one species, the yucca moth, which in turn is also dependent on the tree.
The way our veins and arteries mimic the roots and branches of trees and plants or the estuaries of rivers and streams is one of the most obvious reminders of our oneness with nature.
