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Cities are not shaped only by buildings. They are also shaped by the trees that soften streets, hold memory, and change how a place feels.

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Some trees become part of a route so familiar that we only notice them fully when they disappear.
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Shade is not a decorative extra. It changes how a street is crossed, waited in, and remembered.
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A city becomes more readable when we begin to notice crowns, trunks, bark, roots, and absence.
More trees
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The Tree Atlas is a living field notebook: species pages, identification clues, locations, and the small details that make a tree legible.

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Identification begins before certainty: with form, bark, leaves, fruit, place, and season.
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A tree seen once is a clue. A tree seen through the year becomes a relationship.
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The name matters, but what matters first is learning how to read the tree in front of you.
More trees
A collection of images

Walks make trees easier to understand because they are met where they live: along streets, corners, slopes, gardens, roadsides, and shade.

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A walk reveals what a single photograph cannot: where shade begins, where roots push back, and where trees disappear.
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You do not need botanical confidence to begin. Start with attention. The name can come later.
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A tree walk is also a way of noticing comfort, heat, memory, and inequality in the same street.
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Walk slowly enough and the ordinary city begins to explain itself through trees.

TREES I SAW is the slower editorial home of the observation project behind #treeisaw: stories, photographs, species pages, routes, and memory.

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Black and white is not only aesthetic here. It is a way of asking us to look again at form, absence, and care.
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The hashtag #treeisaw carries a tension: a tree I saw, and a tree I sawed.
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This archive begins from one familiar tree being gone, and from the need to notice the ones that remain.
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The project begins in black and white, but the movement can gain colour through shared attention.