A Love Letter to a Tree: Inside the Immersive Art Experience Arborlogues

In this season of Valentine's Day, we often focus on romantic love — but what if intimacy could extend beyond human-to-human relationships?

In this episode of Tree Speech, we explore a radical and tender idea of connection through Arborlogues: A Botanical Recital Performed for One Tree.

Created by lead artist Dan Daly and writer Lee LeBreton, Arborlogues invites participants into a red-curtained theater built around a chosen tree. Guided by a script, you become both performer and conversational partner with your arboreal audience. The result? A deeply personal encounter with presence, memory, ecology, and love.

This episode also honors the work of Joanna Macy, whose environmental activism and work inspire the piece’s invitation to transform grief into belonging and active hope.

The episode closes with a guided reflective exercise that invites listeners to write a love letter to a tree — an act of relational love rooted in gratitude, accountability, and care.

This week’s episode was written and recorded in New York on the land of the Lenape tribes.

This episode was written, edited, and produced by Jonathan Zautner with Dori Robinson.

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