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  • About me

    • Fullname:
    • Liisa
    • Age:
    • 46
    • Country:
    • Germany
    • Spoken languages:
    • German, English - a little of some other languages
  • 13 Trees
An idealistic person trying to do every day at least a bit to make the world a better place for somebody else.


Pets I am ruled by seven tomcats ;o)
My skills and hobbies computing and IT, office tasks literature, photography, music and of course I love animals




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Dear Liisa,

Congratulations on being a winner of the Tree-Nation Photo Contest! We as the Tree-Nation Jury unanimously agreed your picture of Prague should be one of the winning ones. This because looking at the almost mystic view on the photo, made us really feel like reading a poem. Very inspiring!

As a winner of the photo contest we offer you to plant a tree of choice. Below you can find the link of our shop in which you can view the available trees. Please reply to me after you made a choice so I can make sure your tree will be planted as soon as possible!

http://www.tree-nation.com/community/shop.php

Kind Regards,

Ilona Reekers
Tree-Nation

  • by Liisa
  • 17/05/2007 At 20:08
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„For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow.”
Hermann Hesse

„Bäume sind für mich immer die eindringlichsten Prediger gewesen. Ich verehre sie, wenn sie in Völkern und Familien leben, in Wäldern und Hainen. Und noch mehr verehre ich sie, wenn sie einzeln stehen. Sie sind wie Einsame. Nicht wie Einsiedler, welche aus irgendeiner Schwäche sich davongestohlen haben, sondern wie große, vereinsamte Menschen, wie Beethoven und Nietzsche. In ihren Wipfeln rauscht die Welt, ihre Wurzeln ruhen im Unendlichen; allein sie verlieren sich nicht darin, sondern erstreben mit aller Kraft ihres Lebens nur das Eine: ihr eigenes, in ihnen wohnendes Gesetz zu erfüllen, ihre eigene Gestalt auszubauen, sich selbst darzustellen. Nichts ist heiliger, nichts ist vorbildlicher als ein schöner, starker Baum ...”
Hermann Hesse