Sean Bean

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

English Actor

Paul Stamets

Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.

American Scientist

Geri Halliwell

I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

British Musician

Paul Muldoon

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

English Poet

George Eliot

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

British Author

Gore Vidal

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

American Novelist

Birch trees have a distinctive light, often white or silvery, bark.

Light Bark

Birch trees are common in temperate forests, featured in poetry and art.

Forest Icon

Birch is associated with colder climates and can withstand harsh winters.

Cold Climate

Birch wood is smooth with a fine grain, good for furniture-making.

Fine Grain

Birch wood is easily workable and takes well to glue and screws.

Easy to Work

Birch is often sought after for its balance of quality and affordability.

Affordable Quality

Using birch rods for punishment is historical and no longer common.

Historical Punishment

Birch is a historical symbol of authority and discipline.

Symbolic Meaning

Words like 'birch' can reflect changes in societal norms and language use.

Language Evolution

 We've now reached what looks like a kind of narrow, dark hole of a cave. But I've seen a glimmer of light through it. And I'm thinking, actually, we don't need that much to get through. Even if it's that wide, we reach the end of it, we'll get through it. Let's make a little torch. CHANNING Yeah. We'll do it from that birch bark.

Channing Tatum Makes...

 and that's no coincidence. If we trace the roots back even farther, we find that both meanings derive from a common origin, where some of the earliest expressions of the concept of truth were associated with the uprightness of an oak, the steadiness of a silver birch,

The true story of 'true'...

 And without this spark, without this birch punk right here, easily we could not be here today. We'd be wiped out, extinct in this area of the Earth. Whatever created us and created the earth made it possible with tools like this growing right on the trees.

Building a Bench in the...

 lurking in the undergrowth, as I discovered when I was out looking for firewood. This tree right here is a perfect one. See this bark? It's like paper, and it just peels off just like that. The bark of this birch tree is waterproof and flammable,

Encountering a Deadly...

 We have now discovered that there is a multi-directional transfer of nutrients between plants, mitigated by the mcyelium -- so the mycelium is the mother that is giving nutrients from alder and birch trees to hemlocks, cedars and Douglas firs.

6 ways mushrooms can...

 a birch bark on tray tray David Canterbury goes all sort of nouvelle cuisine good man Jonny chefs what I've prepared for you today chefs yes is rotisserie raccoon haunch finished with a barbecue honey crumble you throw those on chip said

Winner Winner Raccoon...

 this black spruce and tego with the sponge of floor or these this is a giant tussock just brushy and nasty and then once you get above or outside of the forest oftentimes you end up in the brush so all there dwarf birch resin

Andrew Skurka: Trekking...

 pressures that we put on there are other needs of forest biomass lumber lots of different things we started using exotic species because the native birch simply isn't productive

Iceland Is Growing New...

 and as I suspected, silence. Cedar was in its own world. It was not connected into the web interlinking birch and fir. I was so excited,

How trees talk to each...

 search for edible birch seeds they travel along the twigs in convoy