At 3000 years, these goddesses, rising out of the mist, cleanse the air we breathe, provide flower and food, dwellings and fittings, heat and hiatus, myth and metaphor. Trees are totems and temples in the light. As the generative force behind all creative enterprise embodies hope, so references to and icons of the forest and the trees that constitute the woods represent chaos and order, wreckage and reconstitution, decay and regeneration, living in light.