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Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause.
Stand and,
grip hard,
thrust upward,
bend to
the winds of
heaven,
and
learn
tranquility.
Prayer dedicated to Richard St Barbe Baker,
Father of the
Trees
"I can imagine a time when a tree was not a tree,
but a distinct individual. If it is just a tree, one among a whole forest of
trees, it is no great matter to chop it down. Nothing unique is being removed
from the world. But if we see it as a unique individual, sacred and
irreplaceable, then we would chop it down only with great circumspection. We
might, as many indigenous peoples do, meditate and pray before committing an
act of such enormity. It would be an occasion for solemn ritual. Only a very
worthy purpose would justify it. Now, having converted all of these unique,
divine beings into just so many trees, we level entire forests with hardly a
second thought." - Charles Eisenstein
Richard St Barbe
Baker was born in a country house in the South of Hampshire, England, on 9
October 1889 and from his earliest days
developed a keen awareness of the
beauty of the forests and trees and
the creatures therein.
At Cambridge Richard St Barbe Baker studied
forestry and after finishing his degree he was posted to
Kenya as a forester
with the Colonial Office. Appalled by the continued
destruction of the scrublands
in the northern highlands by the Kikuyu
tribesmen Richard St Barbe Baker
convinced the humans there to plant trees to replace those they had
removed. Richard St Barbe Baker instituted a Dance of The
Trees out of which arose the
Men of The Trees, the
Swahili for which is 'Watu wa Miti'.
In 1924 Richard St Barbe
Baker founded Men of The Trees in England and in the same
year became interested in the Baha'i faith, a
faith which he pursued until his
death.
In 1931 Richard St
Barbe Baker went to Palestine at the invitation of Sir John Chancellor, the
Governor, to assist in establishing a tree planting program in the
hope of uniting warring factions.
Richard St Barbe Baker spent some time in Jerusalem co-ordinating a meeting of
the heads of the Arab, Hebrew and Catholic communities to plant
trees under the banner of Men of
The Trees.
Richard St
Barbe Baker next went to the United States of
America on a lecture tour, during
which he wrote his first book
Men of the Trees. Richard St
Barbe Baker travelled to California to see the giant Redwoods and became
involved in a move to conserve these trees from further destruction. On his
return to England Richard St Barbe Baker set about saving the Redwoods by
launching Save the Redwoods Fund. Every year for the next eight years
Richard St Barbe Baker returned to California to nurture his
dream and finally twelve thousand acres
of the trees were
handed over to the State of
California as a reserve.
Richard St Barbe Baker's friendship with
Franklin Delano Roosevelt resulted
in the establishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Richard
St Barbe Baker founded the Forestry Association of Great Britian.
In 1952 Richard St Barbe Baker went to Europe, addressing conferences
in Germany and Austria and lecturing to university graduates in Vienna on the
importance of tree cover.
Richard St Barbe Baker returned to New York, campaigning for
tree preservation and late in that
year led the first Sahara University Expedition, raising
funds by writing Famous
Trees.
In 1954 Richard
St Barbe Baker went to New Zealand at the invitation of Men of The
Trees there to convince the
New Zealand State Forestry Service of the need for
trees in Central Otago.
In
1955 Richard St Barbe Baker organized an exhibition in Cambridge called Man Against Nature and a similar
exhibition was staged in Paris.
Richard St Barbe Baker planted his last
tree in Saskatoon, Canada, on June
5th, 1982 in a ceremony celebrating World
Environment Day.
The
inscription on Richard St Barbe Baker 's grave marker
reads:
RICHARD ST. BARBE BAKER, O.B.E.
9 OCTOBER
1889 - 9 JUNE 1982
FOUNDER MEN OF THE
TREES
PIONEER OF DESERT
RECLAMATION THROUGH TREE PLANTING
CRUSADER FOR VIRGIN FORESTS WORLDWIDE
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beginners how to pray
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Sioux
Gaelic
Sanskrit
Hawaiian
anonymous
John
Ruskin
Saint Patrick
DH Lawrence
Walt
Whitman
e. e. cummings
Meister Eckart
Southern
Busmen
Chief Dan George
Shuntaro Tanikawa
Pharaoh Akhenaten
Hazrat
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Dostoyevsky
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Chardin
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