Jane Goodall

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

English Scientist

Gustav Klimt

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.

Austrian Artist

Alexander Armstrong

I'm the youngest of three children. We lived beside a big beech wood, on the edge of the moors, in Northumberland, which was enormously good fun.

English Actor

Used to describe natural environments or to evoke a sense of nature.

Natural Setting

Mention beech wood when talking about its durability and fine-grain for furniture or flooring.

Wood Quality

In literature, beech trees are often used to create peaceful or ancient forest imagery.

Literary Imagery

 So they like to grow on broad leaf deadwood. So species like beech trees are perfect for these guys that just sort of find their way in the undergrowth. And one of the things I love about an area like this is that it's so undisturbed. You can really see how all these species are interlinked. You can see the whole life cycles. So a fungi species like this one.

Discovering Wildlife in...

 pieces of beech, cherry, elm, fir, larch, lime, mahogany, oak and walnut. The gondola makers began with a wooden template that may have been hammered into the workshop floor generations earlier.

Corruption, wealth and...

 I am a tree hugger. I spent much of my childhood on the great lower limb of a massive copper beech, alternately reading and looking up at the sky through its branches.

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Natural Setting

Wood Quality

Literary Imagery

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