Sacred trees have been worshiped for millennia in India, and today tree worship continues there with abundance among all segments of society.

Extending the definition of ecology to encompass social relations and human subjectivity as well as environmental concerns.

At its core, dark ecology rejects existing ideas about nature being something separate from human existence.

Deep ecology is a worldwide grassroots environmental movement that seeks to redress the shallow and piecemeal approache of technology-based ecology.

Why do people feel so strongly about trees? With this explosion of interest in environmental issues, a serious study of what trees mean to people has long been overdue.