The worship or excessive reverence of trees, treating them as sacred or divine beings.
From Latin 'arbor' (tree) + Greek '-latry' (worship), combining two ancient languages to describe a practice of treating trees as objects of religious devotion that emerged in various cultures and modern environmental movements.
This word captures something real about human nature—many ancient civilizations genuinely worshipped trees like oak groves in Celtic culture or bodhi trees in Buddhism, and scientists now confirm that trees communicate underground through fungal networks, making them seem almost god-like!
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