When I was a student at the Landscape Institute, I took several classes at the Arboretum in tree identification. We walked the site and knew each tree intimately; the leaves, the bark, the canopy and the roots, and its location within the Arboretum. Like the forest in Suzanne Simard’s book, The Mother Tree, the Arboretum creates a “forest”. The trees of the Arboretum are an inter-connected, living, breathing health providing green space that in its own small way helps helps cure our planet of toxins that infect us. The Arboretum is a place where man and nature create a partnership of trust and where our sentient being is made better by this brush with nature.