The Torrey pine is a rarity in the tree world, and an upcoming La Jolla Historical Society exhibit looks at the people who stood by it and rallied to preserve the trees and the land they stand on.

What if the trees around you could speak? What stories would they tell of a time long past, of divine journeys and celestial battles? Imagine standing under an ancient banyan tree or an age-old peepal ...

THE further we are able to penetrate the mists which hang over the early history of mankind, the more sure we become that the primeval ancestors of our race regarded certain trees with veneration and ...