"In dreams begin responsibilities" -- Delmar Schwartz
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."-- Theodore Roosevelt

Questions? Email robertlovett@hotmail.com

Our mission has been expanded to include all conifer species at the Angelina and Alder Springs Units.

"I have noticed in my life that all men have a liking for some special animal, tree, plant or spot of earth. If men would pay more attention to these preferences and seek what is best to do in order to make themselves worthy...they might have dreams which would purify their lives."
Brave Buffalo, Sioux, "By the Power of Their Dreams" (The Cloistered Walk, by Kathleen Norris

"For we cannot command nature except by obeying her." Novum Organum (1620), by Francis Bacon

"It is very healthy to work." (in a letter to his wives, son and daughter) by Geronimo

Sunrise at Alder Springs
"Nights candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on misty mountaintops."
Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare,

Sugar Pine at Alder Springs
"The gods, that mortal beauty chase, Still in a tree did end their race."
The Garden, by Andrew Marvel

"Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep"- -Henry VI, by William Shakespeare 

".......we can grow up with trees and I see them change with us. Since they outlive us,
they can connect us with the future......"--The Trees in My Forest, by Bernd Heinrich

Site last updated 2-5-2002

This Website Collaboratively Maintained by:


Steve ("thousand monkeys") Pierson
Arboretum de Villardebelle 
 Robert  (computer impaired & undeterred) Lovett  (417) 887-9971

Scientific guidance from Sequoia and Whitepine
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