ek shelter. The roots of the tree represent the need to embrace life and draw life from the earth to survive. The sap of the tree flows through the tree like blood through veins and therefore to place things in the tree would enable a healing process to take place for an animal, a human, or a season. I see peace and tranquility in trees. I see cats and birds sitting side-by-side in harmony, no squabbling and certainly no death. Each is content and the overall system is in balance.Trees, like all other living things, eventually grow old and die. For some trees, death may come as suddenly as a lightning strike. High winds might uproot a tree, or an ice storm may coat it and bend it to the breaking point. For most trees, though, death is preceded by a period of natural decline....
