Be a Tree

Erik Assadourian
Curious
Published in
6 min readNov 30, 2020

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Walking you through a diverse ecosystem of Tree Meditations.

Trees have somehow become central in my life experience these days. I’m in the woods far more during COVID-times than I used to be. But more than that, trees seem to be in the news a lot now, from forests burning down to critiques of a 75-foot Norway Spruce being chopped down to bring ‘cheer’ and a refugee owl to Rockefeller Center.

Even last week’s quotation from the Center for Spirituality in Nature was tree-themed:

“Trees are sanctuaries.
Whoever knows how to speak to them,
whoever knows how to

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Erik Assadourian
Curious

Sustainability researcher, ecophilosopher, Gaian, and father of one. www.gaianism.org/reflections