More Than a Green Wall: Why Trees Deserve Relationship, Not Just Installation
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the Eyes of others only a Green thing that stands in the way. ”
At PrivacyTrees, we have some crazy ideas, like the fact that we think trees are living beings worthy of care, attention, and relationship.
A privacy tree can block a view. It can soften a property line. It can create distance between your home and the noise of the world. But that’s only the beginning.
What a Living Privacy Wall Quietly Does
A tree is doing so much without even trying and without you ever knowing. Right now trees across the globe are breathing with the land. They’re quieting exhaling the very oxygen we breath in and take for granted. Indeed, they’re making our existence possible. But they’re not engaging in the monumental tasks of ensuring our existence, they’re also cooling air. Offering shade. Sheltering birds and insects. They’re even holding the soil together.
But that’s not all. A tree changes the sound, scent, and feeling of a place, marking time through new growth, storms, drought, recovery, and seasonal change. So the trees in your privacy wall aren’t just passive objects or background. They’re doing so much silently at any given moment that they can only be accurately described as deeply and intensely vital—frenetically alive in foreground of the world.
A Relationship, Not an Installation
So before we go any deeper in this blog, I want to underscore the fundamental premise our company was founded on. The number one rule of PrivacyTrees is that trees are not objects.
Accordingly, a living privacy wall isn’t just something you install. It’s something you grow a relationship with. Like any other relationship, the more time and energy you put into it, the more you receive. That’s right. Simply put, you get back what you put in. The more time you spend getting to know your trees, you cannot help but see this basic truth.
In short, if you take the time to nurture your tree, you’ll soon come to see that it the tree who is actually taking care of you.
Go touch a tree.
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