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When was your first tree hugging? If you haven’t done it yet, do you plan to do it?!


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My late twin sister and i used to try to tie each other to big willow tree in our front yard when we were kids... don't ask...some crazy game when we were around 6 or 7 !  We had a row of beautiful birchbark trees along our fence line and it wasn't long before we were climbing them... more or less! My first real tree hug was when i turned 14... i embraced our willow tree after our mum died... it's like it drew me to it's 'breast', it's heart turning my tears into a quiet calm. 
Je crois bien que ça ne m'est jamais arrivé (mais je vis en région parisienne depuis toujours alors les forêts sont rares....) mais dès que j'ai l'occasion, je m'y mets!!
  • by anaoco
  • 06/11/2010 At 14:21
 I started hugging trees around 1990, when I was 20! At first, it was almost spiritual, it made me feel connected to the earth and the universe. I used to do it often and used to get a lot of wellbeing from the trees. Then for many years, i forgot, got busy, got 'serious'...
And recently it suddenly came back to me, maybe at the same time that I found love again. By feeling love for a person, I felt more love for nature as well, and I relapsed into tree-hugging! And I'm very happy about it!
En tout cas, j'vais aller voir le dernier film de Charlotte Gainsbourg..... "l'Arbre". Si mon père pouvait me parler de la sorte, j'serais souvent au jardin !
  • by Tiburce
  • 06/11/2010 At 12:27 (Comment edited 06/11/2010 at 12:32)
Enlacer les arbres.... je ne me souviens même plus quand j'ai commencé... C'est si agréable, ils sont si pleins d'énergie qu'ils sont tout près à partager avec nous. Parfois c'est au contraire pour leur en donner que je les enlace. Je ne peux jamais m'empêcher d'enlacer un arbre, où que ce soit, même en plublic, quand il m'appelle, et même si les gens peuvent trouver cela parfois bizarre, je n'ai pas du tout l'intention d'arrêter
Hug trees.. I do not even remember when I began to... It is so pleasant, they are sor full of energy, and willingly to share with us. Sometime, on the contrary, I hug them to give them energy. I cannot help hugging trees, anywhere even in a publc place, when a tree calls me, and even if people may find this rather strange, I do not intend at all to stop.
As a kid I was more focused on climbing them.
But growing older I now have to stay at ground level, tree-hugging.  ;-)
Je n'ai jamais enlacé un arbre mais je me souviens que dèjà toute petite je leur parlais, je les choyais en nettoyant  autour du tronc  ou en enlevant le lierre ou autre que s'y accrochait. Je me suis souvent assise à leur pied et touché l'écorse avec mes mains car c'est une sensation exceptionnelle. 
I'm pretty sure I was 8 years old when I started to hug trees. My parents were operating a gold mine in the Caribou gold fields of British Columbia, Canada. Together with my two dogs I used to go into the magnificent West Coast rain forest to play, since I was the only child in the camp. Somehow the trees became my playmates, and I have felt a spiritual connection to trees ever since. Maybe as children we are more open to the experience and don't find the idea of communicating with trees odd, the way adults might. However, it is definitely something that stays with you. I am now in my fifties and still hugging trees, not in the "greenpeace" sense, but simply because we share a planet together and it feels good. They take my stress away. And Alex, I don't want to win this week, so please don't put me in the contest.

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