Festival of the Trees for July is up on Earth, Wind, and Water.
Today is the 150th anniversary of a monumentous occasion for nature lovers. On this day in 1858 the Linnaean Society of London published an Essay by British explorer-naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace together with another Essay by one Charles Darwin and a letter by Darwin to Asa Gray, the American botanist. These publications unleashed upon the world the theory of natural selection and our understanding of how trees (and every other living species) came to be was changed forever.
… This Festival of the Trees then will be presented in a theme loosely built around the unique history and human relationships of the species represented in the posts and individuals thereof …
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