Human environments form the ecumene, which is humanity's relationship to the earth's expanse. To evolve in these environments is to measure oneself against things that relate to both the measurability of physical extent (nature) and the immensity of human existence (culture). A multitude of elements make up human existence. Literature as a set of written or oral works that have an aesthetic value is one of them. A multitude of elements make up this terrestrial expanse. One of them is the tree. Beyond the tremendous liberating potential that it has recently been recognized, in the earth's ecological functioning, it is, as a singular unit, a reciprocal potentiation of a story by a landscape and of a landscape by a story. Either one of the possible relationships typical of the functioning of literary representation. In novels, landscapes and sometimes trees are highlighted, are described, for the emotions they aroused in the authors and for the particular qualities of these emotions: beauty, grandeur, fear...

This book is an attempt to represent a spiritual threshold connecting the presupposed dichotomies of culture and nature. The technical approach methodology, via the classification and photographic representation of individuals resulting from this classification, via a screened aesthetic (overexposure, low-angle shot, contextual abstraction, framing on the canopy) is to be balanced with a micro particle literary evoking the photographed essence. Not in a linear horizontal relation but rather in an immaterial relation within which the aesthetics, the place, the history, the nature of things (human and non-human) and the nature of their relations, opens a field of sensitive and supersensitive possibilities.