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  2. Joyce Kilmer - Wikipedia

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    Signature. Alfred Joyce Kilmer (December 6, 1886 – July 30, 1918) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled " Trees " (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Catholic faith ...

  3. Van Mahotsav - Wikipedia

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    Van Mahothsavlit. ' Forest festival ', is an annual one-week tree-planting festival in India which is celebrated in the first week of July. It is a great traditional Indian festival that reflects Indian culture and heritage to honor and love mother earth by planting trees, by creating awareness of nature's beauty, and by fostering an environment to promote the concept of reduce, reuse, and ...

  4. The Overstory - Wikipedia

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    PS3566.O92 O94 2018. The Overstory is a novel by Richard Powers published in 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company. It is Powers' twelfth novel. The book is about nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests. Powers was inspired to write the work while teaching at Stanford University ...

  5. Wangarĩ Maathai - Wikipedia

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    Wangarĩ Muta Maathai – Unbowed, p. 192. The government refused to respond to her inquiries and protests, instead responding through the media that Maathai was "a crazy woman"; that denying the project in Uhuru Park would take more than a small portion of public parkland; and proclaiming the project as a "fine and magnificent work of architecture" opposed by only the "ignorant few". On 8 ...

  6. To Autumn - Wikipedia

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    To Autumn. Illustration for "To Autumn" by William James Neatby, from A Day with Keats, 1899. " To Autumn " is a poem by English Romantic poet John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821). The work was composed on 19 September 1819 and published in 1820 in a volume of Keats's poetry that included Lamia and The Eve of St. Agnes.

  7. Afforestation - Wikipedia

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    Afforestation by cutting is an option for tree species that can reproduce asexually, where a piece of a tree stem, branch, root, or leaves can be planted onto the forest floor and sprout successfully. [13] Sometimes special tools, such as a tree planting bar, are used to make planting of trees easier and faster.

  8. José García Villa - Wikipedia

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    José García Villa[ 1 ] (August 5, 1908 – February 7, 1997) was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter. He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973, [ 2 ][ 3 ] as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken. [ 4 ]

  9. Trees (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Trees (poem) " Trees " is a lyric poem by American poet Joyce Kilmer. Written in February 1913, it was first published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse that August and included in Kilmer's 1914 collection Trees and Other Poems. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] The poem, in twelve lines of rhyming couplets of iambic tetrameter verse, describes what Kilmer ...