How Many Trees?

Stephen Whiteside · Post by **Stephen Whiteside** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 7:36 am

How Many Trees?

© Stephen Whiteside 15.07.2012

How many trees do you need for an owl
To flip and to flap on its predat’ry prowl?
How many trees do you need for a quoll
To scurry along on its leisurely stroll?
How many trees do you need for a glider
To get enough berries and insects inside ’er?
How many trees do you need for a hawk
To soar and to swoop and to hunt and to stalk?
How many trees for a shy potoroo?
I do not know just how many. Do you?

Maureen K Clifford · Post by **Maureen K Clifford** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:18 am

If we stopped cutting down the ones we have we would probably have enough Stephen

Another American Indian saying and yes I know it is not Australian but couldn't find an Aboriginal one that suited but I am sure the feeling is mutual regardless of race, or country

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Stephen Whiteside · Post by **Stephen Whiteside** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:53 am

Thank you for this, Maureen.

Post by **Dennis N O'Brien** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 9:47 am

42 - good one Stephen.

Has inspired me to knock one up along the same lines but I'll leave
posting for a while - don't want to appear to be bad mannered.

Stephen Whiteside · Post by **Stephen Whiteside** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 10:23 am

No, go for it, Dennis!

Neville Briggs · Post by **Neville Briggs** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 2:36 pm

It will all be solved when the Greens realize their ambition to eliminate humans from the planet.

Neville Briggs · Post by **Neville Briggs** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 3:26 pm

Joyce Kilmer famously wrote

I think that I shall never see
a poem as lovely as a tree.......
Poems are made by fools like me
but only God can make a tree.

Stephen Whiteside · Post by **Stephen Whiteside** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 3:26 pm

I can understand this attitude, Neville, but it's going to be a lonely old place when humans have eliminated all other life forms from the planet. I guess there are a few germs that will hang around to keep us company. (Looks like I've got one at the moment...)

Stephen Whiteside · Post by **Stephen Whiteside** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 3:28 pm

Yes, owls prefer trees, too.

Neville Briggs · Post by **Neville Briggs** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:08 am

And frogmouths too ( they are not owls ) I sold a painting in the local art show last week and you might be pleased Stephen to know that it was a nature study of a tawny frogmouth under the light of the full moon.

ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

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