Funeral for a Tree – Thoreau’s & Mine « The Healthy Planet

Funeral for a Tree – Thoreau’s & Mine « The Healthy Planet

By Linda Wiggen Kraft, Green & Growing Editor In January 1856, Thoreau watched as a tree was cut down. He stated: “I have attended the felling and, so to speak, the funeral of this old citizen of the town…I who commonly do not attend funerals”. He went on: “I was the chief if not the only mourner there. I have taken the measure of his grandeur; have spoken a few words of eulogy as his grave…but there were only chopper and the passers-by to hear m