tree-hunters

Updated: May 2, 2025

Then there are tree-hunters exploring all the continents, and bringing new species from Japan and other antipodean countries. But as yet, our maples have never been introduced; and without these the tree-world of any country must ever lack a beautiful feature, both in spring, summer and autumn, especially in the latter.

Elihu Burritt - A Walk from London to John O'Groat's

Yet, notwithstanding the darkness of its interior and the sombre character of its dense masses of evergreen foliage as seen from without whence the name of "black timber," which has been applied to it the shade and shelter it affords and the sentiment of grandeur it inspires cause it to become allied with the most profound and agreeable sensations; and it was something of this feeling, though they could not express it in words, which possessed the young tree-hunters as they stood in the pine-grove.

Ella Rodman Church - Among the Trees at Elmridge