Arthur lee jacobson biography of mahatma
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Many of us speak casually of loving trees, but our relationship with them may be only word-deep.
Arthur lee jacobson biography of mahatma
For Arthur Lee Jacobson, trees carry passion, life-work, soul-depth, and he hopes to educate the rest of us through his writing. If you spy a wiry figure winding a tape measure around a Seattle tree this winter, tugging to get the girth precisely noted, you’re seeing him at work.
Now that January brings us great weather for selecting and planting trees, we all can learn much from Jacobson. He’s in the midst of revising his 1989 book “Trees of Seattle,” (Sasquatch Books) long out of print, but not for lack of demand.
Jacobson decided to stop reprinting it until he could update the contents. He surveyed trees throughout the city limits between 1983-89 and says “now about one-quarter of them are gone,” but “many have been planted and added.” He likens using his old reference book to “trying t