A wood is an area covered in trees, larger than a grove or a copse. A forest is also an area covered in trees, but it is larger than a wood. The trees in woods and forests grow thickly, and the space between them is overgrown with grasses, shrubs and underbrush. A grove is a small stand of trees lacking dense undergrowth. A copse is a cluster of small trees and shrubs.
This Arbor Day, in honor of my birthday next month, I am having a grove planted by the Arbor Day Foundation. They'll be planting the sixty trees in one of the national forests in this great country.
The trees will bring new life to an area destroyed by fire. Wildlife will find new homes, smaller vegetation will thrive in the shade, in turn providing new homes for other wildlife and the insects to feed them.
The trees will filter carbon dioxide out of the air, processing it o form new leaves and releasing precious oxygen.
I've had a love story with trees ever since I read Joyce Kilmer's poem.
I was probably in middle school at the time.
"Trees" (1913)
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
i thank You, God, that we can plant new trees.
