ENTS Aesthetics Project

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
- Albert Einstein
What is it about a particular tree, grove, or forest that tells you that this is a special place? What is it that touches you in some way on an emotional, spiritual, or aesthetic level? Is it different for individual trees as opposed to a section of a forest? If so what are the differences? This project is something in which I ask ENTS people to participate. I want to see a collaborative effort, than one derived directly from my ideas.

At the ENTS Rendezvous in October, I presented a PowerPoint presentation on ENTS. One slide dealt with what I called the Aesthetics of the Forest. I had a bulleted list of 1)Music, Poetry, and Prose, 2) Celebration of Trees, 3) Spiritual, 4) Emotional, 5) Philosophical, 6) Artistic. I would like to see ENTS explore some of these concepts to a greater degree in the future.

Edward Frank