Live Oaks and Ceibas in the Landscapes of Louisiana and Guatemala
by
Kit Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Big old trees inspire our respect and even affection. The poet Walt Whitman celebrated a Louisiana live oak that was solitary "in a wide flat space, / Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near." Groves and alleys of live oaks remain as distinctive landscape features...