With the trees burning around the world, in Canada and the US as well as in Europe and Africa, Asia, South America and more, it seems to be an especially important time to be with the trees, to recognize our kinship, and to celebrate them.
To see just how bad the fires are around the world, below are the links to two maps that are kept in real time.
NASA Greenpeace
I don’t know when and where the initial hatred of trees began, but I would tag the Bible as an early and influential proponent of destroying trees.
The viciousness against trees appears to have grown out of a desire to erase Goddess worship in Biblical lands. The terms for Goddess groves were Asherot and Ashereem named after the Goddess Ashera. An individual tree was called an Ashera. The charge given to the people was to cut down everyone.
And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves (Ashereem) with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Deuteronomy 12:3 KJV
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
Exodus 34:13 KJV
Feminism and Religion 