| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | Drummond (54)
02/23/2006 | Carl Sagan did that. On Cosmos. He hugged a tree and said, "This tree and I are made of the same stuff."
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 | earthbound (37)
11/28/2005 |  I did this once, when I was younger. I had never heard of the term "tree-hugger" at the time, and it had no negative connotations for me. I was out in nature with an American girl and she encouraged me to do it.
Not wanting to seem like an insensitive clod, and also harbouring a secret hope that the sheer manly force of my sensitivity might lead one thing to another, I went and hugged a large tree.
So there we were, embracing trees. I was willing myself to feel something, but nothing was happening. After some time, I began to expect a camera team to come bounding out of the nearby undergrowth. That did not happen either. Glancing out of the corner of my eye, I saw her hugging the neighbouring tree and I determined not to break away from my tree until she had finished with hers.
Alas, no amount of figurative or literal sappiness could help me there on that day. There was no love left for me at the end of the day.
Now that I am older, I realize that the moral of the story is that if you want your tree-hugging experience to be rewarding, then your motives should be pure from the outset.
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 | JonTheMan (27)
04/11/2004 | Not on the first date
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 | scarletfeather (47)
04/11/2004 | Since most trees are the strong, silent, types, I doubt they would want my hugs. I'm happy just to look at them.
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 | kolby1973 (32)
04/11/2004 | I wonder if Molly Shannon is in the Green Party? I think if someone is going to go around hugging trees..then they are obviously really obsessed with the environment...and it is probably going to far...but I can't say that for sure. I know lots of people who say talking to their houseplants helps them grow quicker and healthier...so there might be something there...who really knows? I for one personally would not want to hug a tree because of the negative things that could result from it...tree sap getting all over my clothes...hugging some poison oak..fun fun ! No thanks...
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 | Redoedo (39)
04/10/2004 | Absolutely not. I have a huge oak tree in my back yard, and I have yet to hug it. I would hate to presume on our friendship.
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 | abichara (60)
04/04/2004 | I'm not one to protest suburban sprawl by climbing up on an oak tree to prevent it being bulldozed down, but having lots of trees in your backyard gives it life. Unfortunately, I live in a urban wasteland. I'd like to move out into the country one day and have a nice spread with lots of trees.
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 | Enkidu (37)
04/04/2004 | Like CastleBee I have always loved trees. Hugging them can be messy though, and they aren't all that cuddly. I have no problem with logging--heck, half the stuff in my house is made of wood--as long as it is done sustainably! That's not that hard to do. Currently I'm living adjacent to palms, pines, oaks, redwoods and a mature avocado grove: tree heaven.
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 | CastleBee (81)
04/04/2004 | I have always loved trees and, if I had then means, I would live on about 100 acres of land - 3/4 of it forested. I can actually remember hugging the huge sycamore tree that graced the center of my grandparent's back yard when I was a child. To this day it ticks me off royally when the idiots from the light company have their annual hacking of the trees to protect the light wires. It's not that the wires shouldn't be protected. But, like anything else there's a right and wrong way to go about it. If you're going to make a hideous, unthinking mess of it then you shouldn't be doing this for a living.
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 | LadyShark4534 (12)
01/21/2004 | Ooooh...Tree....I love you! Let's celebrate Valentine's Day! *smooch*
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